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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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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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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

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It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

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This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?".

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

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But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. They are connecting you with knowledge and inspiration in more creative ways. the way the best museums do. Does this mean Khan Academy is competitive with museums?

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Online Auctions for Nonprofits: Ideas for 2021 and Beyond

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The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. For a more collaborative online auction idea, you might want to throw a virtual community market. Do you have any local artists in your area or artistic, passionate supporters in your donor base? Art-themed Auction.

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The Ministry of Rules: Interview with Nikki Pugh

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Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. There was a large mind map on the wall with a prompt in the middle encouraging visitors to imagine a slightly distant future with no staff present to enforce the rules in galleries or museums.

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Observations from The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, Month 1

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This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly. I went into this project skeptical about the use of Second Life as a collaborative design platform.

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