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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.

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Kid-Tested, Hipster-Approved: How Austin’s Thinkery Curated a Whole New Audience.

Connection Cafe

It’s safe to say this town is up there trending with those other ‘cool hipster’ cities like Brooklyn and Portland. ” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? Genius, Thinkery, genius! The event routinely sells out, and this month was no different.

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

Museum 2.0

The Odditoreum is a temporary gallery for the summer school holiday in which the Powerhouse is displaying eighteen very odd objects alongside fanciful (and fictitious) labels written by children's book author Shaun Tan, schoolchildren, and visitors. That's functionally what the Portland Art Museum renegade podcasters did.

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