Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Community artists gave their honest feedback, and we crafted a display based on these discussions and their contributions.

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APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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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? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

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JULY 17, 2012

It happened because we: partnered with local artists and community organizations whose passion and generosity made it possible for us to create incredible events. actively sought out community needs to respond to. You can see here that 86% of our growth in attendance from 2011 to 2012 is due to community programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. When planning programs or events, we involve a combination of these groups to share and bridge audiences, bringing big, diverse crowds to new artists and ideas. Large and small (or no) followings.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. Finally, we define our community by affinity.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. We finished with a group photo and fun co-creation reflection. Design thinking is a set of principles that includes—empathy with users, a discipline of prototyping, and tolerance for failure. New Technology for New Power Movements.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I started the blog as a personal learning activity, but also for the dorkiest reason in the world: to have something to talk about with my heroes. In 2004, Anna was the Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the International Spy Museum.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

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JUNE 6, 2008

The resulting (real) exhibits are high-quality experiences that reflect a level of creativity that could not have resulted from our scant in-house exhibit development staff. I think the reason we hold onto the idea generation part is because it's fun, not because it's the activity in which we have the most specialized expertise.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. 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.

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JUNE 15, 2009

It also includes reflections from the exhibit team on the project. They were roped to very specific locations and activities. And in Advice, the activities for staff were interesting and specific enough that a really eclectic mix of volunteers could perform them successfully.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. The ask is clear, the activity is compelling, and the display of contributions is simple and inspires greater participation. The activity is compelling. The World Beach Project does not exist in the V&A Museum.

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