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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

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Dr. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Five years later, project director Dr. Piotr Bienkowski's final report for Our Museum tells a different story. didn't mince words.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

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I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I arrived in 2011 with the explicit directive to execute a turnaround. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Three years later, we''re out of turnaround and into growth mode. In the meantime, here are some.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. For example, the MAH’s Poetry and Book Arts Extravaganza event partnered with Book Arts Santa Cruz and Poetry Santa Cruz to collaborate with 61 talented book artists and poets.

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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

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Executive Director Nina Simon, who was hired in 2011, says that in the years following the global financial crisis, the facility was struggling. “At The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community.

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Psst. Want an Internship?

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It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

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It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. So what did you do next?

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Goodbye Consulting, Hello Museum of Art & History!

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As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. Dear Museum 2.0 We'll need interns.

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