Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

Two weeks ago, we inaugurated a Creativity Lounge on the third floor of our museum. Lisa was thrilled that her work was on display at the museum. We started a pretty fascinating (and yes, a little frustrating) dialogue about the puzzle and the question of what constitutes desired engagement in the museum.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. While questions like: "Where were you last night?,"

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He shares a story.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2011

Perhaps the quality of harmony is the most impressive, since our sector demonstrably abounds in dedication and creativity. They don't keep their activities secret, but very few members of the public seem to know about the amazing range of initiatives in progress at Perkins.

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Massachusetts Museum Library History 56

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

For example, when we held community meetings about the development of a new creative town square next to our museum, a group of middle/upper-class moms talked about not feeling safe downtown. But it could also be something else that demonstrates appreciation and value. Use unorthodox activities to inspire fresh thinking.

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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. They talked about community building.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2007

Inventory isn't a museum activity that inspires curiosity in many visitors. This summer, the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art ( Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde) is trying to change that. People often talk about non-collecting museums as the museums of the future.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. I said yes.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. First, there's the question of creative control. That r elates to a more general question: How do virtual exhibits translate to real exhibits?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Once you’ve applied to the program, you’ll need to set up your account, create your ads, and actively monitor performance. The program is most helpful for organizations that have discussion-worthy causes and content centered around related topics that people are actively searching for online.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021. To both promote their event and advertise specific pieces, A&H Maitland has an active Instagram where they engage with supporters and answer their questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

TechSoup's Virtual Office space was pretty busy last night, hosting an earlier mixed reality event in Cambridge and SL , featuring Pathfinder Linden , head of educational activities for SL. " It's a variation on that question that pioneering nonprofits will ask and answer too. Both events had their share of clunkiness.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2007

One of the things that interests me about these images is the extent to which they demonstrate how computers have gone from tools used by adults to accomplish mostly professional tasks to tools that can be used by all kinds of people for all kinds of things. Tags: children's museums design usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more. You can gear your fundraiser towards these types of group activities and create new patrons in the process. Do an Art-a-thon Host a 24-hour art-a-thon or creativity marathon where artists create artworks or engage in art-related activities non-stop.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

His goal: demonstrate how impossible it was to cook a meal we would both like. Perhaps the best example of a non-human opponent of this kind is 20q , an artificially intelligent game that is remarkably good at 20 Questions. Netflix isn’t selling movies; it’s selling the activity of movie-watching. Cottage cheese!”

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2011

This is the casual attendance data from my first full month as the Executive Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz. This graph is making me change the way I think about what our museum is for and how we should market it. Simply, I'm shifting my perspective from an exhibit-driven model to an event-driven one.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Last Friday, I had a discussion with Chris Catanese from the Museum of American Finance about things museum can learn from the technology (and web 2.0) On the face of it, museums are a lot more like banks than they are like dot coms. When it comes to products that are user-centric (as museum products should be!),

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach. I think, sadly, that we all know the answer.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. Why not ask more typical website questions, "why don't more people visit my blog?" They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. Museum 2.0's It's a bit strange. it gets me excited.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

I created a directional pyramid to make a point about social content in museum; namely, that museums are not offering networked, social experiences—and therefore will have a hard time jumping to initiating meaningful social discourse. And I’m not advocating that the dream museum would be all level 5 experiences, all the time.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2011

want to move to Santa Cruz and work at my museum? We are looking for an obsessively detail-oriented, highly resourceful, financially savvy, culture-loving individual to be the Administrative Manager of The Museum of Art & History. These activities are not optional; you must return the application to be fully considered for the job.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Summertime concerts at the history museum? Outdoor movies at the art museum? For us, annual attendance includes programmatic activities onsite and off.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2009

Many museums are experimenting with “back channel” platforms that allow visitors and staff to chat and share content while onsite at the museum. We gave everyone post-its in their registration packets and encouraged them to post their questions and comments, especially on the “gaps” in the conference, to the board.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

How many museums have stacks of comment books that are only culled for the gushing quotes that belong on annual reports? Many staff react against this, saying that curation is the museum's job and shouldn't be reduced to a popularity contest. and that differentiates these questions from throw-away "What do you thinks?"

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2009

Smith , a museum technologist who bridges the gap between academia, curatorial work, musical composition, and technology. He writes about the lessons he's learned about how to talk tech with curators, educators, and other museum beings who don't know what "OCR" means (like me). This guest post was written by Koven J. It’s not pretty.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

Many museums have jumped into the middle level—producing their own content—without starting with commenting. Many of the most active bloggers and Web 2.0 Consider the path of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Jennifer Caleshu, their director of communication, is a museum talker extraordinaire. initiatives.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

How is this “mystery” demonstrated and explained? Live facilitation has a varied role in museums. In children’s and science museums, explainers are everywhere. From a financial and management perspective, however, many museums try to minimize live facilitation as much as possible. It’s not high-tech.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2008

When museum professionals talk about extending the museum experience, they’re usually talking about post-visit experiences. Online activities that continue experiments begun in the galleries. But for most contemporary museum-goers, the pre-visit happens on the web. What’s the most used portion of your museum website?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The hundreds of people involved, from tens of organizations, across numerous activities and aspects of the effort, is extraordinary. There are many more — stories of individuals and groups successfully working together by demonstrating empathy and respect. It was a good question. She looked at it quizzically. “It Can it fly?”

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Some of you were more fascinated by the technology’s demonstration than the specific content (which is fine!). The participants were diverse, ranging from museum exhibit developers to NPR accessibility engineers to content experts to e-learning professionals. What are your questions or comments? Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. Interestingly, at the City Museum in St. This can go overboard, however, as demonstrated by the image at the top. These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters. What conditions did I miss?

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