Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. You can download all the slides here. First, a quick recap on our revolution. Focus on what matters.

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Museum Learning History Arts 55

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. Plus, all purchases support a truly amazing tutoring program. I will definitely be at the following: NAME party at the Velaslavasay Panorama on Sunday night.

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Los Angeles Participatory Museum Arts 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

Of course, the current financial crisis demonstrates what happens when companies set up artificial life support systems to prolong themselves far beyond their ability to provide great products and services. 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

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. I look forward to more strategic partnerships that support community development broadly in our county. Just doing it. Again, the jury is out.

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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

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. Potential audiences feel connections with artifacts, so why don’t they participate in or support collecting institutions more often?

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Accessibility Open Museum North Carolina 44

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

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. But that doesn't mean I support the Berkshire Museum's choice. I think the deaccessioning rule has outlived its usefulness.

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Public Build Museum Detroit 40

Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

At AAM , Mark and his compatriot Emily Lacy enthralled a packed room with a five minute song about Machine's hijinks. Both staff and visitors host TV programs in the space that range from interviews to game shows to salon chair ministries. In other words, they're not pretentious. is in conflict with (currently, Iran).

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the tiny science center, I got to do everything from leading programs to building exhibits to managing volunteers to cleaning snot off of plexiglass. In 2004, Anna was the Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the International Spy Museum. We had only eight people doing everything related to content and programming at the museum.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

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. That's great, but I'd much prefer to go on a hike with them than sit in a bar, and few conference experiences support that. It was incredible.

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Conference Professional PowerPoint Evaluation 21

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. Here's some artists personal blogs that support their gallery sites where they sell their work -- A Planet Named Janet , Self VS Self , PaMdora's Box and Jen Lemen.

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

The session, presented by Cultural Connections , focused on museums, exhibits, and programs specifically developed to inspire visitors to take action in their own lives to create social change. This is what has made MoveOn so successful, and a powerful model for museum exhibit/program designers who want to inspire action.

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Model Action Congo Museum 26

Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

(No relation to AAM. I'm bringing a few big questions with me to AAM this year. As I've spent more time in the AAM community, I've developed some really deep friendships--which is good--but it also means that I am less likely to spend much time at conferences with people I don't know. Participatory history programming.

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Conversation Participatory Museum Minneapolis 43

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

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. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. They’re stealing my thing!

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Interview Museum Teen Myspace 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Both projects received awards by AAM. This work led to my appointment as an organizing committee member of AAM’s Tech & Media MUSE Awards, my election as Program Co-Chair of MCN, being part of Knight Foundation’s initiative to support positions with digital expertise, and receiving grants to continue digital efforts.

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Museum Detroit Arts Leadership 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. What Taren is describing is not an individual's vision but an individual story, namely, that coolness and cooler-ness are valued and supported by her organization.

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Life Create Change Museum 20