Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. What should be our role–as institutions that claim to conduct their activities for the public benefit–in the face of ongoing struggles for greater social justice both at the local and national level? There is hardly a community in the U.S.

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Museum Blogger Cleveland Missouri 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

She is a fabulous and thoughtful artist. It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. You can learn more about her work here. The area that houses the Creativity Lounge also shows art.

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Museum Arts History Columbus 51

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2017

This is the eleventh in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. We had 2,000 t-shirts to give away, 850 balls to drop, and over a hundred artists, accordionists, salsa dancers, taiko drummers, and bubble ladies ready to go.

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Open Brain Press Museum 37

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. This is an epic moment in the history of education, who wouldn’t want to be part of it? the way the best museums do.

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Learning Free Museum Online 55

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? The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days.

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Interaction Design Museum Participatory 47

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation. As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

This activity went with an artist’s work where she told of immigration stories. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists. The American Museum of Natural History had two wonderful moments happening this summer. Find me on social @artlust on Twitter and @_art_lust_ on IG or leave me a comment.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. He''ll be able to watch how certain activities evolve into coordination and what kinds of histories the people who most easily coordinate have in common.

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. and then recounted some related fact or history.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community? Identify the third places in your community, learn more about the lives of the people that go to them, and have a basic understanding of the history of third places in the area.

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Place Museum Discussion Pennsylvania 27

Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

It requires trading a certain history for an uncertain future--a nerve-wracking prospect no matter the situation. I don't know - and I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments. As project director Evelyn Orantes commented, "This is a program that challenges the basic ideas about how art is displayed."

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. So what did you do next? The website for the stories is beautiful.

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Story Interview Museum Audio 53

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. The Museum 2.0

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If not, please share a comment and let's talk online. Our Story I came to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago. As one visitor recently commented, "the MAH has become 'our' museum, a reflection of us and a place where we can appreciate art, share it with each other, learn and make new connections."

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Museum Arts New Zealand Indianapolis 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? My answer: neither. The market decides what's relevant.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here. A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible.

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Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

s experiment and examples in Brian Russell from Audio Activism's recent presentation. Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process. Some comments by Bob Moffit about their blogging experience. Artistic Director Blog (Inactive). I set up an H20 list with the snippits of the history. Gilbert commented.

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Conversation NPO Minnesota Blogger 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. The Museum 2.0

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. In the case of MN150, staff historians worked actively to verify and connect with contributors on any contentious topics. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

The first one opens with these comments: If I have an all encompassing desire for any computer game I play or themed attraction I visit, it is this: Take me to a place that: Lets me go somewhere I could never go. Did I miss a period in history by skipping a room or did the exhibition just gloss over that decade? Where am I?

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Game Storytelling Lesson Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. With one exception, no single activity cost more than $30 to produce/maintain. Some are conceptual (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Inspire visitors to look, think, and respond actively to the works on view? Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Examples of socially rousing photography permeate our history: Vietnam, Rwanda, 9-11’s Ground Zero. Our web site serves as an international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art, especially environmentalists, social activists, artists, art professionals, health care practitioners, and those challenged by illness.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Post fill-in-the-blanks and ask users to respond with their answer in the comments. Borrow like an artist Steal content from your other platforms and see what similar organizations are doing to engage their audience. Quiz time Ask quiz-style questions, and have users comment their guess in the comments. Fill in the _.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. Typically, if you’re starting a pilot program and you do not have your own history of success. You should have it by dinner time, that’s my promise to you. So you raised $20,000.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

active use of artifacts?) In recent email correspondence about this issue, Elaine commented: The other problem is that there is a disconnect between what non-Native Americans wanted to see and what the Indian people wanted to tell them. Again, Elaine comments today: The first, where NMAI suffered, is in repetition.

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Culture Storytelling Challenge Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

This week, I read a fabulous essay that made me feel a new kinship with the past in the quest to advocate for active audience engagement. They voted on the best plays in the days of Sophocles, stormed the symphony halls when confronted with artistic dischord, and talked and wrote about what they saw and what they thought.

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