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

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Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. 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.

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

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And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us. Engagement with local artists. One of the things we love about exhibiting local artists is that they are often here to talk with visitors about their work. What do you think?

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

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In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC).

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). Museum programs can be designed to further bond similar groups together such as families and friends in family workshops such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s First Tuesdays.

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Technology for Experience's Sake: Guest Post by Bruce Wyman

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In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues. We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. The most value that will come out of this game, when people start designing their own scenarios. 700,000 have played the game.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. This was particularly true for Click!,

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