Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

One of the most powerful books I read while doing research was We are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence ( read it free here , great appreciation to Bob Janes for sharing it with us). The Blackfoot mostly live in what is now the province of Alberta, where the Glenbow Museum resides.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Online virtual fundraising is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise money. Pensacola Habitat For Humanity’s Women Build initiative encouraged folks to set up their own personal fundraising websites to raise money for the cause. Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom. Zoom to the rescue!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. More money. At the same time, our community relevance was limited.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. Now Friday nights at the museum have become something people can count on, and they keep growing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

When it comes to user participation in cultural institutions and the arts, it's popular to launch projects that pit visitors against experts. at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 There was Click!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

If you make or exceed your goal in the timeframe you set, you get the money. Kickstarter makes money by taking a percentage on projects that succeed. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. Your cultural outlet is art galleries and symphonies. Vote with your money instead." Successful argument: Great museums improve quality of life and the value of the region.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. Kathleen McLean led a terrific session called "Dangerous Ridiculous" about risk-taking in museums. Interestingly, at my museum, our team is naturally better at ridiculous than we are at dangerous. Talking about money, openly.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

Although fundraising for arts organizations has unique challenges—like justifying the need to ask for support from donors for your arts and culture versus donating to the efforts of front-line workers—art in all forms is something that every community needs. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. Every organization has pockets of restricted and unrestricted money.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In 2011, in the name of raising money for the Special Olympics, I participated in the Polar Plunge. Museums, zoos, and aquariums are finding that crowdfundraising can be a strategic tool to add to their fundraising playbook. A young artist program you hope to get off the ground? Bonus: No one has to jump into a frozen lake.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Payne," member of the incredibly popular Santa Cruz roller derby team, wants to pitch a partnership with our museum. She doesn't have a specific idea for a partner event or exhibit, but she feels like we have a lot to offer each other in terms of publicity and a shared focus on enhancing cultural experiences in the community.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. My answer: neither.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Right now he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation in Santa Fe. Not only does the Market give folk art collector folks an opportunity to see and buy work from all over the world, the coolest thing is what it means for the artists. Their site goes live Dec. 1 at www.leadwithexperience.org.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Looking closer, I saw that each seat had its own handwritten label, telling the story of the Philadelphia cultural institution from which it originated. They were there for artist talks. There's no money to fix them. The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

The first participant was handed money (the price of a ticket), but the later two had money literally stuffed into their clothes by the dancers. Dean noted that in the US performances, the participants always tried to give the money back to the dancers, but in Korea that never happened.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

As Ben Cameron recently said, "I don''t know any artist who started a theater company saying, ''let''s go out and improve some test scores!''" It prevents us from focusing on research that could transform our own work. Consider the recent research at the University of Arkansas about the value of school field trips to cultural institutions.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Not only will you be able to raise a substantial amount of money for your organization’s cause, but your supporters will also return home with a valuable prize in hand. In fact, studies show that more and more people are gravitating toward spending money on travel and events rather than material things, and for good reason.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you asked me a month ago what the biggest barrier was to American arts organizations adopting practices that support active engagement in the arts by diverse participants, I would have said two: money and legitimacy. Move the money, and the field will move. Turns out it's not that simple. He paused.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Andrea has been a leader in the museum technology field. I cannot identify a single strategy-level decision maker with visitor-centered expertise and enough cultural competency to develop and apply successful, proven methodologies in-house, let alone share with other institutions nationwide and beyond.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

This social aspect makes it a powerful way to boost visibility in your community and raise money for your programs! For instance, you might want to raise money in remembrance of a loved one who passed away or to support a whole group like veterans. Donors are more likely to give when they know the person who’s doing the asking.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2009

He points out that coin operation: encourages visitors to make an "investment" in their selections and incentivizes them to really pay attention to the experience so they can "get their money's worth." So why haven't we seen museums that operate like arcades? changes the perception of who "owns" art. I'm skeptical of these arguments.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last week, I finally watched The Art of the Steal , an arresting documentary on the controversy around the evolution of the Barnes Foundation from a suburban educational art facility to a major urban art museum (to open in May 2012). Unlike most art collections, Barnes' art was neither exclusively private nor a public museum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And, of course, because women's organizations always have too little money, I thought maybe a book would inspire other people to help. The little girls are part of a culture, the Shona culture in Zimbabwe, as maybe you know, uses poetry. The women are using those forms that are the most effective in their cultures.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2007

It's late at night at the Museum Curator smackdown. The preliminary bouts on cultural interpretation are over, and the crowds are roaring for blood. Museum folks often talk about the time decades ago when museums began to shift from places for objects to places for visitors. Is the fix in? They're like banks.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve long been interested in the intersection between maker culture and museums. It’s worth mentioning that the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit also hosted a Maker Faire at their facility this year. After the tour, the group came back to NYSCI and we had a brainstorm… let’s just do it in the museum. Why at NYSCI?

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