Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. The Odditoreum is another wrinkle in the study of visitors' understanding and interpretation of authenticity in museums. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Alternatively, arrange pickup times and locations where participants can safely retrieve their wine and cheese before the event. When hosting an in-person auction isn’t an option, a virtual silent auction is a perfect alternative to raise money for your organization. Virtual tours for museums. Design challenge.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. In 2003, writer George Scheer inherited his grandmother's thrift store and decided to turn it into an artists' center and museum. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. I like this alternative to sticky dot voting!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Despite the fact that we often think of welcoming places as being designed "for everybody," the places where we actually feel most welcomed and comfortable are often designed not for everyone but instead feel like they are made just for us. Of course, the problem with all of this is that it sounds crazy from a business perspective.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

How does this question play out in museums? At the 2013 American Alliance of Museums annual conference, a group of exhibition designers explored authenticity in a session called Is it Real? They explored a huge range of museum objects and grey areas of "realness." design exhibition research storytelling'

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

I wanted to open up conversation about how we judge the relative ethics of various sources of museum revenue--all of which have moral grey areas. When I decided to make this little game about museum ethics, I hoped that more people would participate than typically comment on a blog post. Last week on this blog, I tried an experiment.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Last week, I sat down on a toilet in our museum and found myself looking at an interactive station intended to test a “Legends of the Stall” sign concept for the restrooms. Legends of the Stall was started by a visitor services staff member, Katie Chrivia, who collaborated with interns and volunteers to develop the content and the design.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. Race Through Time was designed specifically for this audience of 30 and 40-somethings looking for fun social events with a Santa Cruz bent. Late night mixers at museums for young adults. Performances just for teens.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It is an incredible museum experience. The visitor is given a copy of her poster and the museum keeps a copy as well.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The ASTC (the Association of Science and Technology Centers) annual meeting is coming up in LA (home of my childhood), and Museum 2.0 In a world of increasingly sterile museum environments, the Museum of Jurassic Technology is a beacon of emotion, strangeness, and wonder. And if you want a more traditional Museum 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! Following the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

The museum was in huge financial trouble. but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on. My expertise was on inviting strangers to participate in public settings like museums. I remember the first staff meeting I ever ran. I had just started at the MAH as the new executive director.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

This brilliant design allowed patrons to create new knowledge about the books in the library while only slightly adjusting their book-returning behavior. This design inspires me because it creates new value out of what visitors already do. No museum would stop offering an educational program that was "too successful."

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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. In January, I wrote about the challenges and opportunities of using Second Life as a design space.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

I've been thinking recently about ways to represent issues (social, political, scientific) in museum settings. Museums often pursue the dual goals of presenting accurate, objective information while encouraging visitors to think for themselves, take a stand, engage with the issue at hand. But is stand-taking always right for museums?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. There was a large mind map on the wall with a prompt in the middle encouraging visitors to imagine a slightly distant future with no staff present to enforce the rules in galleries or museums.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Most museums, frankly, aren't like that. The majority of museums are quite small in budget and staff. Sarah may be looking for slack on the order of $10,000 while your museum might be lucky to scrounge $100 for new ideas. Without continuing to innovate and stay relevant, the organization goes into decline.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2007

This week, I heard about a neat renegade art/museum awakening project in Providence, RI: Urban Curators. By utilizing frames that one might expect to find in an art museum or gallery, viewers are forced to make connections between the urban landscape and the museum environment. Projects design usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. I love this idea, but I often find that museum staff are really nervous about making any changes that might alienate current members/donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. It's Not All About You: Respecting Your Users Dinosaur to Digital: A Museum Convergence Success Story.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 and watched the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? And the "stuff" of the game is real stuff, artifacts created by players and sent to the museum. Coincidence?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2009

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.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2007

She is an expert in alternate reality gaming (ARGs), the first woman to keynote at the Game Developers Conference, and she’s thrown down the gauntlet for a game designer to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences by 2032. I think about this a lot with regard to museums and data. Jane McGonigal wants to make it happen.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. The project is designed to scale. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2006

People prefer purchasing unbundled content to the more traditional alternative. Seb Chan of fresh + new, the blog from the Powerhouse Museum in Australia, ran with this idea to comment on the impact of disaggregation on the way that visitors use museum collections available on the web.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Jellyvision has now released a list of Jack Principles on Interactive Conversation Interface design. There's nothing too shocking in this design list, but it's a great alternate view into the window of interactive exhibit design. Everyone who walks up to a museum kiosk knows it isn't "alive". Talk to me.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2007

One of the most obvious places to seek out this kind of experience—in a good way—is the museum. Why isn’t Al Green coming over the mental stereo in the museum? Visitors rarely have pre-existing relationships with exhibits/artifacts prior to the museum experience. But it almost never happens. It’s creepy. Think of a library.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

But the biggest question in my mind is: what lessons can museums (and game designers, and etc.) Good game design can encourage serious visitor participation on specific topics. Complex, multi-faceted strategy games are possible, as long as the game design accomodates complex, multi-faceted topics and directions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine bonfires, musical jam sessions, and iron chef exhibit design. The focus is on bringing in outside influencers--folks from the Burning Man festival to World Without Oil --to help museum experience designers recharge, connect, and explore new ways to do creative work in teams. Imagine making and playing together.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

Joe explains some of the planned intentional dialogue events: First, for the opening night dinner, we hired a local dance company that is putting together pieces about visiting museums, punctuated by an actor/dancer asking provocative questions to the group. At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Who would set their sights on these mundane aspects of human experience, things that recede into the background, given the glitzy alternative of commercial games? The kinds of connections people make when playing games or looking at comics are different than those made with film, text, or any number of more traditional media used in museums.

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