Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2013

Museum supporters and art lovers were up in arms about this proposal, arguing that these "cultural gems" are held in the public trust and should not be shed to pay off creditors. Only a small percentage of museums are formally signed onto the AAM code of ethics. I feel conflicted about this whole question.

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Detroit Museum Michigan Arts 52

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It can be hard to move against the tide about this, but try to focus your own thought away from seeing ‘being stressed” as equivalent to “trying”. Elizabeth) Women are particularly prone to feeling guilty about taking time to care for themselves, perhaps because it feels at odds with societal expectations of women as caregivers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. You can download all the slides here. First, a quick recap on our revolution.

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Museum Learning History Arts 55

Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

I'm giving a free talk about visitor participation in the evening at JFKU in association with the museum studies program and Cultural Connections. I'm chairing two sessions at AAM, one on design for participation (May 24) and the other on mission-driven approaches to technology development (May 26). May 6 - Berkeley, CA.

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Los Angeles Museum Participatory Minneapolis 22

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2010

For those folks trekking out to Los Angeles this week for AAM, I hope to run into you at the conference. Signing books on Monday from 4-5 in the AAM bookstore. We won't be talking iPhones or 4D theaters: we'll be talking about our different approaches to thinking about and working with technology from a process perspective.

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Los Angeles Participatory Museum Arts 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

I reveled in big events like ASTC and AAM. I loved flipping through conference programs weeks in advance, inking stars by sessions I wanted to attend. Attend at least one session that you know nothing about. Fast forward a few more years, and now, conferences were ALL about connecting with people. And I fell in love.

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Training Train Conference Learning 21

Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We have new support from foundations and individuals who care about innovation in audience engagement—and even more importantly, participants who are excited to experiment with us. Maybe instead of thinking about needing to turn around the monthly cash flow, I should have thought about the net cash required to put us on more stable ground.

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Museum Director Participatory Culture 55

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). When I was given the opportunity to found the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) I had been working for nearly 10 years with Museum Assessment and Accreditation at AAM.

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Museum Game Lecture Model 22

Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

I was curious to learn more about what was behind the article. He is the son of Bonnie Pitman , an extraordinary museum leader and educator who has served as director of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Bay Area Discovery Museum, and as a board member for AAM. I knew something about this world.

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Museum Generation Interview Donor 54

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Recently, several subscribers to the RCAAM (Registrar’sCommittee of AAM) listserv posted concerns about professional photographers and museum visitors taking photographs of objects on exhibition. But what about the potential creator who happens into an exhibit, gets an idea, and takes a picture?

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Accessibility Open Museum North Carolina 44

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

It's taken me that long to figure out how I feel about the whole thing. I once consulted with a museum that had no museum--no building, no public programs, no exhibitions. Professional organizations like AAM and AAMD are against it, but their forms of censure are few. The controversy started in July of 2017.

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Public Build Museum Detroit 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2007

Because AAM wants to know about it. The program chair of the Small Museum Administrators Committee, Tracy Sullivan, is seeking examples of small museums (operating budget under $350,000/year) using Web 2.0. Are you podcasting? Maintaining a massive social network? explanations of Web 2.0

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Museum Web Org Library 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt from AAM wrote a provocative post last week about the financial future of museums in which she suggests, among other things, that 20% of museums should be allowed to fail in the coming decades. These include jobs for employees and programs that address a societal gap not provided by other organizations or businesses.

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Model Business Los Angeles Museum 55

Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I haven't found a centralized resource that is presenting information about these institutions, so I'm going to start writing more about them. At AAM , Mark and his compatriot Emily Lacy enthralled a packed room with a five minute song about Machine's hijinks. In other words, they're not pretentious.

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

Joe Heimlich, the VSA conference program chair, explained that once the program committee settled on the theme of “Theory, Practice, and Conversations,” they decided to try to live up to the theme by focusing the whole conference around conversations. Why are they doing this?

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

Max Anderson, the museum’s director, delivered an inspiring keynote address on the first day of the conference about “moving from the virtual to the visceral.” I was thrilled by Max’s talk and looked forward to seeing how the physical site reflected the transparency and engagement he spoke about. Onsite, it’s an authoritative cipher.

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Participatory Museum Web Indianapolis 35

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

blog, and it got me thinking about how and why I first started doing this. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." And while my parents were a bit nervous about me turning away from engineering, they trusted me. I got hooked all over again.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience.

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. This spanned all the projects.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2009

I just returned from the Creativity and Collaboration retreat (C2) , a NAME/AAM program that I've been helping develop for about a year and a half. There's a reason people who went to summer camp as a kid are cultists about the experience. Strangers talked about their fears and challenges honestly. We had fun.

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Conference Professional PowerPoint Evaluation 21

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. If I made up stories to go with the art, wouldn't I think just as hard about what it might mean, what inner jokes or profundity I might spin into my creation?

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Museum Alternative Portland Artist 22

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? More factual information about the situation. Their website includes a clear, concise "What Can I Do?"

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Model Action Congo Museum 26

Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

(No relation to AAM. I'm psyched to spend a few days with friends and colleagues talking about some of the challenges we're grappling with in our work. I'll also be part of two sessions on Tuesday, May 1 - one in the morning about money and business models, and one in the afternoon about prototyping and experimentation.

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Conversation Participatory Museum Minneapolis 43

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Last week, Elaine Gurian and I talked about radical change in museums. Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. What’s so special about the GMSP? It was not a tough sell.

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Interview Museum Teen Myspace 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Each week, I’ve been ceding the blog to others as a chance to hear many voices share their thoughts about our field, where we are, and where we are going. Both projects received awards by AAM. The DIA was also about to receive hundreds of students who visit to celebrate the student exhibition show.

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Museum Detroit Arts Leadership 22

Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Last month at the AAM conference, a speaker said, "we should all be using measures of quality of life to measure success at our museums." Especially new to collecting data about broad societal outcomes and experiences. We thought about collecting it ourselves (stupid idea). I got excited. "We I got tingly. She killed the mood.

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Local Data Learning Childhood 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kris talked about brain research related to the potential cognitive and social impacts of participation. One of the resources she shared is a book called Brain Rules , which presents studies about the power of "cognitive force environment"--the idea that we need to be able to actually change an environment to learn from it.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

I'm kneedeep in the final run-up to the opening of Operation Spy at the Spy Museum, but in the fleeting moments between disasters and near-disasters, I'm thinking about AAM. The speakers spoke lovingly and intelligently about star moments in unforgettable spaces--both as visitors and as designers. The experience was emotional.

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Life Create Change Museum 20