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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

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The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. This immediately led to cross conversation.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Why We Wrote an Exhibition Philosophy

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In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process. We knew internally that we wanted our exhibitions to become more interdisciplinary, more participatory, and more responsive to audience needs.

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Guest Post: Weaving Community Collaborations into Permanent Installations at the Denver Art Museum

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The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Once we started the conversation, the outpouring of excitement was remarkable. Some community artists even helped install the space.

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Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and Related Events

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Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” We urge museums to consider these questions by first looking within.

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Traveling Couches and other Emergent Surprises Courtesy of an Open Platform

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To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. A local engineer, Greg McPheeters, brought his tandem-bike powered recycled couch to our Trash to Treasure festival last Friday night. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see. Happening Couch.

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Don't Join the Conversation if You Aren't Ready to Listen

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Is it a conversation? In almost all cases, museums assure me that they want to be in conversation, that they want to be responsive, that they want to “really hear” what people think. In one case, the institution jumped into the conversation and converted an ugly situation into a positive community outcome. Let’s start there.