Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an aha moment for me at the time about self-confidence and self-evaluation, and it's one I've carried into my career. I've often argued that art and history museums should adopt this approach and encourage visitors to explore their potential as artists or historians, not just audiences for content.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

She is a fabulous and thoughtful artist. It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. You can learn more about her work here. The area that houses the Creativity Lounge also shows art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. If you represent an educational or social justice charity, maybe giveaway specialty decks of cards featuring important people from history. help to evaluate resumes of kids). These exist already!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

Everyone''s definition of risk is different, and while museum professionals may share a common language around the topic, that commonality breaks down when you involve artists and technologists and game designers and performers. Or they might have chosen to make up a fictitious narrative around history artifacts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In the past year, I've seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. It's a shame that several of these projects are labeled as "experimental" and don't have formal evaluation built into their cheap, fast processes. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. What started as a series of experiments and happy accidents is now embedded in how we develop and evaluate projects. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging' And rarely the twain shall meet.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Environmentalists, the Museum of Natural History at CU, they all responded very enthusiastically to this. We will engage volunteers to evaluate the technologies for how usable—and socially adaptable—they are. And that will probably happen when the kind of artistic production that uses new media will become predominant in the museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. What do you track? What domains of impact should be considered (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

For the last three years, I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with the Smithsonian Latino Center as part of the Educators Advisory Council, in preparation for the forthcoming Molina Galleries , which will focus on celebrating the contributions of Latinos in the History of America. Thank you, DIA, for everything. I am hopeful.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. Typically, if you’re starting a pilot program and you do not have your own history of success. “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.”

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." What are the evaluative measures by which we will consider the dialogue experience successful? Tags: evaluation exhibition Talking to Strangers design.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Summertime concerts at the history museum? But in an age of nonprofit accountability and increasingly sophisticated evaluation strategies, I think this kind of approach could be useful. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. Louis count it. There''s quite a range.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. So how do we evaluate and make decisions about self-censorship? Imagine an art museum that allowed patrons to bang on the exhibits the way you can in a science center.

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