Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. We ask people to do serious work, and they pick up paintbrushes and join in.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums. The best children's and science museums are deeply community-interrelated, often in ways that are hard to discern from the exhibits when experiencing them casually.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! Some of the key lessons we discussed were: providing crystal-clear criteria and constraints to help participants focus their work.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

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. The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. How do you acknowledge their participation in a way that helps subsequent visitors connect with the passion and hard work that went into the process?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. There's not a lot of work in pinball, and I had a deep secondary interest in unschooling and free-choice learning.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

I was particularly pleased to see young children persuading their parents and grandparents to participate. We are now actively looking at ways to build on this success in all our exhibitions, although it’s a much bigger challenge in touring or artist-curated shows. Projects participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Below are three things I learned from the Advice exhibit and will take with me into future work. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. I recommend you check out the wiki and evaluation report to dig deeply into the content.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory? Proper audiences were like docile children, seen and not heard.

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