2009 Collaboration Museum Open 
Museum 2.0
JULY 17, 2013
Last week, my museum hosted Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripes--developed an experimental exhibition around our permanent collection in our largest gallery.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.
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Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 2, 2013
This is the last of the guest posts offered during this fall season, and it dovetails with last week''s post about opening up collections access nicely. George Scheer is the director and co-founder of Elsewhere Collective, a fascinating "living museum" in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC.
Museum 2.0
JANUARY 4, 2010
It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Some of these challenges were about mission fit.
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 12, 2009
The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process. The panel picker process just opened - so you can vote yes or no for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program or not until September 4th. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? It was organized by Ed Schipul.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 3, 2011
In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. As one participant said, "the museum feels friendly in a way it usually doesn't." People make the museum friendly, not activities. There were 168 secrets contributed during the weekend this activity ran (a weekend in which 250 people visited the museum).
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