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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

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Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened. At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. The level of touching, especially of art, has increased. Engagement with local artists.

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Hack the Museum Camp Part 2: Making Magic, Reality TV, and Risk as a Red Herring

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You can also see a ton of photos on Instagram , and I highly recommend the Confessional Tent videos for sheer silliness (more on those below). Then, when we put together teams, we again tried to break people up such that every team would have a blend of individuals across several axes. Here''s what I got out of Hack the Museum Camp.

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50 Silent Auction Basket Ideas to Bring In the Big Bids

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Share your silent auction basket highlights on all of your social media platforms, using both photos and videos to boost your items’ appeal. Coffee lovers will jump at the chance to try new coffee blends or brewing methods for their morning, afternoon, or evening cup of joe. In your videos, remember to describe your items in detail.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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The World Beach Project: A Creative Contributory Project that Shines

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The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. It launched in October of 2007 with a very simple and understandable idea: to produce a global map of pieces of art made with stones on beaches. The World Beach Project does not exist in the V&A Museum.

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