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Museum 2.0
JULY 17, 2013
Last week, my museum hosted Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripes--developed an experimental exhibition around our permanent collection in our largest gallery.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 21, 2012
How do you help visitors know what they can and cannot do in your museum? Most museums have this figured out: they have signs, they have guards, they have cases over the objects. And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us.
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Museum 2.0
JANUARY 30, 2017
I started my museum career as an exhibit designer. But I reserve for Don Hughes that particular blend of admiration and fear that comes when encountering uncompromised brilliance. He is a genius designer out of central casting: an artist, mercurial, funny, emphatic, honest, unflinching, with a disarming weakness for babies.
Museum 2.0
MAY 3, 2017
This is the ninth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Studying engineering taught me to think like a designer: state the problem, brainstorm, test, iterate.
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
How did the authors come up with the intriguing blend of curatorial, interpretative, and inventive opportunities shown in the Audience Involvement Spectrum's Venn diagrams? Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"?
Association TV
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Have you ever been to a restaurant, museum or shopping mall and needed to use the bathroom? If your page is expertly designed then you can get away with microcopy on the subtle side, like Google has on its search page. If you’ve ever worked on a single project long enough, you know that elements start to blend together over time.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 12, 2012
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. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE.
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