Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Why aren’t more museums designing highly constrained participatory platforms in which visitors contribute to collaborative projects?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. At the MAH Our first program goal is to meet the needs and assets of our community as defined by our community. At the MAH Our second community program goal is to build social capital by strengthening community connections with our collaborators and visitors.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

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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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

While much of the branding and design inspiration we run across is either from consumer brands or individual artists, it all provides us with the opportunity to discover new principles, practices, and approaches that we can incorporate into our nuanced nonprofit world. Accessibility: Start small and focusing on the benefit.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

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. Community artists gave their honest feedback, and we crafted a display based on these discussions and their contributions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. People go to school because they have to or want to in order to get to their goal. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists. Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

She is a fabulous and thoughtful artist. The same day we opened the Creativity Lounge, we opened new exhibitions throughout the building, including a paper collage show in the 3rd floor lobby by local artist Lisa Hochstein. For Lisa, the goal is for people to engage with the exhibitions. You can learn more about her work here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. Projects participatory museum storytelling usercontent'

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

We have witnessed and experienced incredible moments of transformation: homeless people and history buffs working together on historic restoration, graffiti artists and knitters collaborating on new artistic projects, visitors from different backgrounds making collages, or sculptures, or dance performances together.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. The goal here is to write down as many as possible. Write about where you arrived.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The goal is two-fold: to start engaging the plaza as a creative, event-filled, vibrant space. The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show. multiple times per week. multiple times per week.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. I've had these personal goals for a long time, but I wouldn't have guessed a year ago that they would lead me to this job. When we moved here four years ago from Washington D.C.,

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. We used Beck Tench's honeycomb format to present the six main goals for MAH community programs against which we'll assess new ideas (quickly--about the first ten minutes after introductions).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Naming our goals and our culture. We wrote engagement goals.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. Her blog, "Museum 2.0," is one of the leading forces working to remake the museum experience.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. Their enthusiasm and commitment charmed us and aligned with our social bridging goals. Ask them about their goals for this collaboration and share your goals.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. They are artists whose experience deserves a home in our institution alongside painters, photographers, and sculptors.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. How and why did Object Stories come to be? So what did you do next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. How might we reimagine our goals so they aren’t trapped by old power values and/or culture? Design thinking is a set of principles that includes—empathy with users, a discipline of prototyping, and tolerance for failure.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I sat down with Kristen Denner, Director of Membership and Annual Fund, to learn more about the program's development and the museum's goals for its future. In some cases, the artist is not comfortable, or there are insurance and liability issues. What are your goals for the Curate Your Own Membership? I think that's suspect.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. The groups can use three different approaches: physical, artistic, or traditional word presentation. Why are they doing this?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. My goal was to find an incredible professional to work for in an institution that was small enough that I could actually make a contribution. Lay out your goals so they understand where you're heading and hopefully can help you get there.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

The pyramid I created implies hierarchy, and it also implies that these levels need to be moved through in a sequential manner to get to the “top”—presumably the goal. I talked about leveling up, and indeed I do believe that museums should consider engaging more in levels 3 and 4—whether their goal is making it to level 5 or not.

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Forum One

JUNE 6, 2024

Think like a musician Those who have played music in a band or orchestra or sang in a choir understand the profound impact of an engaged and participatory audience. Like a good ask-me-anything session with your favorite artist, these bits of interactivity boost engagement.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

This is not to say that the virtual designers didn't work hard to make their ideas in-line with our museum goals--in fact, we could have given them much clearer and stricter criteria and they would have thanked us for it. One of these artists, a graffiti artist named Dan, had such a good time that he a.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

Like a lot of organizations, my museum struggles with two conflicting goals: The museum should be for everyone in our community. One of our core programming goals is to build social capital by forging unexpected connections between diverse collaborators and audience members. Does social bridging make sense for your institution?

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

To successfully complete their goals, players are asked to use their creativity to solve problems and more importantly, to share their work with others online through blogs, photos and YouTube clips. Jeff has been a DJ, music producer, graphic designer, illustrator and consultant to independent artists and small business owners.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. LEARNING The post-it activity achieved our goals of getting visitors past the wall and into the gallery in huge numbers. Visitors really looked at and responded to the art.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2015

We began with a series of internal meetings to evaluate our current visitor experience and set a goal for the project. Are there specific outcome goals you have for ASK? We have three goals. Goal 1: Personal connection to the institution and works on view. Goal 2: Looking closer at works of art.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. Many museums do not provide participants with clear terms surrounding their submissions, and for savvy people (especially artists!) In their personal statements, beach artists wrote about profound connections to nature.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

When asked why these artistic directors were pursuing co-creative processes, "to make great art!" Respondents also talked about growing as artists through the process and the incredible things they learned from working with non-professionals. When an institution becomes wholly participatory, those distinctions often erode.

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