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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

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Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. Historic St. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum.

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

Museum 2.0

It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC). PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St. Louis, whereas others are august stalwarts like the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Design firms' projects often have a common look across different cities and institutions. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

This summer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it. Louis Science Center''s mission is to "ignite and sustain lifelong science and technology learning."

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Game Friday: Lessons in Environmental Storytelling from an Imagineer

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There's a game design source I used extensively at the beginning of development for Operation Spy: Gamasutra. Two of the articles that most influenced me were written by Don Carson, Disney imagineer turned video game designer, about "environmental storytelling." (You Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy?

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. Louis, Missouri, and I was working for an environmental law clinic as a consultant. And I started working with a community outside of St. Who identifies as an activist?

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