M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Museums can have a hard time soliciting smaller dollar annual gifts tied to mission, rather than a new exhibit, and this is a great place to turn the focus to why donor support matters. Pi Day, celebrating math and science, is the Museum’s signature day of giving.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Then, I get home, confined to the couch with a terrible sinus headache, to find ICOM was debating the definition of a museum. ICOM matters because museums are a global phenomenon. Over the years, I’ve enjoyed interacting with all the international museum folks at conferences, particularly at AAM. A different sort of ache began.

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

Forum One partnered with the Museum on a full website redesign and upgrade, to welcome more diverse audiences and provide a space to discover our shared American history through a modern, inclusive, and forward-looking digital experience. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2020

As a Historic Interpreter for Telfair Museums, I would lead visitors through the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters on a 45 minute guided tour of antebellum Savannah history discussing politics and urban slavery. When the Museum closed I was expecting the next few weeks to be different. I set up digital lunches.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”. 2019 saw more than 55,000 museums across 150 countries participate.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1. Susan Spero brought up the cost tuition rises had to the field: The rise in tuition which in turn has meant that museum studies programs have taken a huge hit.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

You run a regional museum. This is the plan that plunged the Berkshire Museum into hot water. It's sparked public uproar, legal battles, and nationwide press coverage. It's cracked the crumbling, outdated rules around deaccessioning--and unearthed more serious issues of public trust. And you'll build your endowment, too.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Written by Seema Rao Last month, I shared some of my thoughts about the best of museums over the last decades. (I I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Many respondents talked about a fundamental shift in museums from them to us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Field Museum. Getty Museum. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum of Modern Art. National Public Radio. Public Broadcasting System. Best Friends Animal Society. DoGoodBuyUs. First Book. Global Goods Partners. Handcrafting Justice. Human Rights Campaign. International Princess Project. National Geographic.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2020

Nina Simon, Lauren Bentua, and many others would host us in the halls of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art. When we think about mapping these ideas onto an organization I think about how museum leadership can take these on personally as individuals (CEO, COO) and as departments (Human Resources, Education) and so on.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

In addition to the international days listed below, see also public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch digital marketing and fundraising campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Learning in Public Challenges and Actions – guest post by Annie Hernandez. I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful. Could it be shared in whole or part with your public? Should you do the same?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After our complete closure on March 16, 2020 due to COVID-19 , our museum staff was busier than ever preparing to navigate these uncharted times. Our focus was to maintain a connection with the public and our members. For the days ahead, we remain fluid to continue to keep our doors open the safest way we can! Co-Author: Carey Calhoon.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2021

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Even though the museum is now open, the Museum Without Walls will continue.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In addition to the international days listed below, see also public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months. Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch digital marketing and fundraising campaigns. January 15: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

American Jazz Museum Best Arts Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room and Gem Theater.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I'm generalizing grossly here, but for the most part, I find European museums to be conservative. I find North American museums to be risk-averse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2022

In addition to the days listed below, see also public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Western Museum Association was kind enough to invite me to speak on a panel about engagement at their annual meeting in Boise. Phillip’s early remark about museums was an invocation for everyone. As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.”

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With the first wave of lockdowns in Spring 2020, the primary value proposition of membership vanished overnight, and closures caused many museums to reinvent their benefits and programming in digital formats. 100+ Membership Leaders Share Their Priorities For Digital Transformation in Museum Membership. And where is membership headed?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Field Museum Online Store. The Field Museum is an educational institution concerned with the diversity and relationships in nature and among cultures. Paul Getty Museum Store. Metropolitan Museum of Art Store. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums.

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Candid

MAY 18, 2022

About a month ago, Candid was tagged in a social media post from someone who had visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. We reached out to Amanda Moniz, Ph.D., the David M.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

This week we’ve found apps from museums. Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. iOS/Android: ArtClix enhances uses mobile to enhance the museum experience. MoMa by the Museum of Modern Art.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There are billions of historical documents housed in archives, museums, and libraries around the world. The vast majority of these documents do not have full-text transcriptions or indexed data, making them difficult to search and largely inaccessible to historians, students, scholars, and the general public.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. We're doing it in Santa Cruz and it has absolutely transformed our museum into a thriving community institution. The theme of TEDxSantaCruz was "Open."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

In addition to the days listed below, see also public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We are excited to share that the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal , NYU’s Congressional District Health Dashboard , and March of Dimes have been named Anthem Awards finalists. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Where do museums fit in? Here is our statement.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2017

Like Seema, I've been looking for ways to increase active resistance of racism, hate, and bigotry--both as an individual and as the leader of a museum. Seema and I have started an open google doc to assemble ideas for specific things museums and museum professionals can do to resist oppression. Museums are ideas.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Sometimes it isn''t.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2013

Over the past three years, the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) has served as the museum poster child for the debate on the public value of the arts. Last year, the DIA was saved from financial crisis by voters in its three neighboring counties who elected to take on an additional property tax to support the museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In addition to the days listed below, see also public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising campaigns. 20: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2013

Check out this inane AT&T commercial about a woman whose absorption in her smartphone is so great that Facebook updates become substantiated as pieces of art in the museum through which she strolls. It''s like a bad public service announcement about the relationship between ADD, self-absorption, and psychosis.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Two recent events have got me thinking about pranks and unauthorized activities in museums. Improv Everywhere staged an event at the Metropolitan Museum in which an actor posing as King Philip IV of Spain signed autographs in front of his portrait, as painted by Diego Velazquez in the 1620s. I feel like it's more complicated than that.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The 17th Annual Davey Awards received nearly 3,000 entries from ad agencies, digital agencies, production firms, in-house creative professionals, graphic designers, design firms, and public relations firms. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. The Frist Art Museum. Silver – Features, Art Direction for Digital Content.

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