Articulate Goal Museum Tag 
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Audiences are a portion of the humans in the museum ecosystem. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people. The classes sold, but it took me away from what was the real goal of our program, connecting people to collections through action.
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Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. They use these explicit goals as measuring sticks for the projects and experiments they pursue.
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 29, 2010
This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. 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. This works best when: Visitors have a clear understanding of the overall goal for the project.
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. Did I find it revolutionary?
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 21, 2006
We use these processes to get us to an end goal, then wipe the desk clean and present the finale as an isolated, perfect thing. I was nervous—previously, I’d only shared published work with others—and I knew that my goal with the poems was not quality but quantity. How can museums learn from it? Where do museums fit in?
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
They want articulated goals and expectations. When we did the final evaluation for the project, one comment from the teens really surprised us: they complained that it felt like we were "hiding" the goals of the project from them in the first of three weeks. Tags: exhibition design usercontent.
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