Remove Alternative Remove Denver Remove Director Remove Museum
article thumbnail

Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

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.

Museum 49
article thumbnail

The Lab at Belmar: Museums Coming Soon to a Mall Near You?

Museum 2.0

Start an exploratory project to open a small, probably struggling, museum? Forget your grand dreams and try to weave awesome strangeness into your regular museum job? In Denver there's another way. It involves an exotic museum bedfellow, the suburban real estate developer. It's a hip, energetic place.

Museum 20
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Technology for Experience's Sake: Guest Post by Bruce Wyman

Museum 2.0

In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.

article thumbnail

100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try in 2021 and Beyond

Qgiv

While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. Board fundraisers – Your nonprofit board of directors is the governing body of your organization. People can bid either in-person or virtually with a mobile app.

Ideas 59
article thumbnail

Framework vs. Sensibility: Separating Format from Voice

Museum 2.0

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. A museum can be friendly, or serious, or funny, while maintaining a traditional relationship with visitors as consumers of experiences.

Voice 42