Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Why does your museum open its doors each day? Will they be visiting with children? What other museums do they follow/enjoy visiting? Processes can be arranged where an email is sent out based on a trigger which can be a number of things like activity (that does, or does not take place), time, customer behavior and more.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. We’d love to share. I am a bisexual cis woman.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

They consistently get retweeted, repinned, and reblogged and have an active fan base on Facebook and Google+. Field Museum :: fieldmuseum.org. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) :: unicef.org. Their website, e-newsletter, and blog all include links to their social networks. Hint, hint. CARE :: care.org.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

However, like Facebook, simply posting a link without a personal statement doesn’t seem to result in much activity on Google+ and to post multiple times per day on Google+ with well-thought out personal statements could become time-consuming. Children’s National Medical Center. The Field Museum. Amazon CARES.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

In one common scenario, a parent gets their children involved in an organization and that child continues their support into the next generation. Also involved in your organization is her daughter Nina, a 22-year-old literacy coach who volunteers her time for many of your projects focused on children.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender. Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) :: @NationalCASA.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many people ( Paul Orselli , Linda Norris , Pete Newcurator ) in the museum field have written about the question of museum "tribes"--based partly on Seth Godin's book , partly on the longstanding fan culture that pervades our lives through sport , celebrity, and shared experience of mass events. There are staff in plush costumes.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art’s grantmaking activity is focused on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them. Highland Street Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Why aren't children's museums represented on Museum 2.0?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. For example, Pencils of Promise will be hosting, for the first time in two years, its PoP Gala on October 20 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. Stanfill, Ph.D.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. But the more I learned, the more I wondered where the real threat is, and why children's museums have been so resistant to change.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. People x (Food + Place) looked at photos taken by children in a park to understand what contributed to their sense of community. Taking photos.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. in an interactive activity to consider challenging questions about race, identity, and economic justice over a meal.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Build a membership program specifically for children. Think about what types of activities your organization offers that kids would like. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh created a Summer Adventure program.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 10, 2021

For generations, parents and their children have responded to the needs of neighbors, organizations, and their community by rolling up their sleeves and working together. By developing a “Family Volunteer Philosophy,” which can serve as your guide and “yardstick” against which you will measure your family volunteering activities.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Global nonprofit measures and shares its impact in real time. The nonprofit Splash has developed an entire site called Proving.It Social media trailblazers open up.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum had 1100 pictures of children who were victims of the Holocaust. It wasn’t known how many of these children survived, and many photos were missing identifiers. Each interaction has helped to shine a national spotlight on the tragic frequency of LGBT suicide. Remember Me.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's not every day that a visitor buys pizza for everyone in the museum. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Ze was really hands-on with everyone, giving hugs, taking photos, jumping in to do activities with participants. The activities had a really low barrier to entry.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. And yet in the museum world, we still see interactives as being mostly for kids.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We just started to try to live up to that vision, partnership by partnership, activity by activity.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things. And this brings me back to the mountains.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Membership models determine how organizations drill down to plan membership tiers , community-building activities, and budget and revenue priorities. Membership Models: The What and Why A membership model is an organizational structure where a nonprofit offers a valuable set of benefits in exchange for a recurring membership fee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

The lucky winner, Invisible Children, has won $1 million , but the Huffington Post is reporting that the second place winner, engaged in voter fraud. Invisible Children has also been accused of fraud during the duration of the contest. Invisible Children has also been accused of fraud during the duration of the contest.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. Two years ago, my dad and I embarked on a podcast project called Museum Hater. Help people understand why you do what you do.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

How do you help visitors know what they can and cannot do in your museum? Most museums have this figured out: they have signs, they have guards, they have cases over the objects. And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. No small task for a museum exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers.

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