Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Host it over a video conferencing platform like Zoom and take advantage of features like breakout rooms to allow participants to get to know each other in a smaller setting. Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Sports clinic.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. Kate was selected from over 1500 applicants based on a one-minute video, an essay, and an application form. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. That will come later.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. What do you do?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Two recent events have got me thinking about pranks and unauthorized activities in museums. Improv Everywhere staged an event at the Metropolitan Museum in which an actor posing as King Philip IV of Spain signed autographs in front of his portrait, as painted by Diego Velazquez in the 1620s. I feel like it's more complicated than that.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2020

There, dancers post videos to compete for likes, artists and artisans sell their works, and in the comments viewers offer prayers and encouragement. Yet within days of the first shelter-in-place orders, I received Facebook invitations to groups such as Social Distance Powwow and Quarantine Dance Specials 2020.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

George Scheer is the director and co-founder of Elsewhere Collective, a fascinating "living museum" in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

Last week, my museum hosted Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripes--developed an experimental exhibition around our permanent collection in our largest gallery. Teams were more intense than I anticipated.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

NTEN has just announced the first NTC video competition. And the good news is that if you've never created web videos before and don't have the big bucks to hire a professional, there is enough time to learn. In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

How do you help visitors know what they can and cannot do in your museum? Most museums have this figured out: they have signs, they have guards, they have cases over the objects. And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

You can also use services like Discord to host a video chat to allow participants to game together, or Twitch to stream games. Summit Dogs is a great example of how powerful livestreaming can be when you share on a variety of platforms, include personal stories, and include both asynchronous and live videos. Zoom to the rescue!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2014

Museums, Politics, and Power is a new blog that lives up to its name. Some serious parallels to curating exhibitions and performances, especially with living artists. As Brian puts it: "What happens when an artist’s inclinations towards her/his work conflict with her/his ability to sell and keep making it?" Petersburg.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week, I became completely intoxicated with the online videos of Vi Hart , self-described mathemusician. Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. But Vi doesn't work in a science museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2015

I have an unusual education for the director of an art & history museum: a degree in electrical engineering. You'll burrow down rabbit holes of gorgeous videos, cerebral reading lists, and provocative artist talks. I can identify artworks by famous artists. Diane is teaching me how, when, and why artists use the word.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I was reminded of these two design principles when exploring the Johnny Cash Project , a crowd-created music video for a posthumous recording of Cash singing "Ain't No Grave." To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. That's hardly revolutionary.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2015

I''m not sure how well this is working for us in museum-land. As our culture explodes in embracing creativity across the professional/amateur spectrum, museums have two choices: we can sharpen the line. If done poorly (uncritically), it turns the museum into yet another place to watch cat videos. 1 is the weaker choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. Artist Blogs.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Watch the two-minute conversation between Devon and Clayton Lord starting at 14:25 in the video below.] But here I sit, the director of a museum that almost closed, squirreling away money for an operating reserve. They closed for capricious financial reasons, and they left disappointed artists and participants in their wake.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. Learning Labs are a chance for individuals attending MCON 2015 in-person at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago discuss ideas and get practical advice from experts across many industries. While the in-person audience is at lunch, online participants can watch a series of powerful films and videos.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Do you have any local artists in your area or artistic, passionate supporters in your donor base? Plus, you’ll provide artists with some much needed recognition. BONUS – See this idea in action! Art-themed Auction.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. This pairing speaks directly to my passion for the arts – my day job is as manager for individual giving at the Musical Instrument Museum , and I serve on several music-related boards, as well as perform as a flutist and singer. Check out this video from Know99 TV to get a peek into what my day was like!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

In that spirit, I offer a few things that have excited me in recent weeks: The MCA Denver Holiday Video is out, and it is very, very good. Way better than that video at Museum X where the director drones on about the new initiatives of the year. How should (and do) we treat them?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. And when I think back on the past year, some of the most magical things that have happened at the museum have NOT been designed by us. We don't have to convince them that it's their museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. They just finished a YouTube video contest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. You just need to show proof of membership. Get creative.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

This is typically a video plus text, although some projects just use a simple image instead of a video. When I first started exploring the site, I assumed it was mostly a place for charismatic hipsters and a few star artists with enough social media savvy and clever video production capabilities to produce enticing pitches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

If not, we’ll roll the video. If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. Either way, you’ll learn a lot! What is Content Curation? Content curation is the organizing, filtering and making sense of information on the web and sharing the very best content with your network.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. They're playing video games. But I don't think that theory holds up.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more. Auction an Artistic Experience Auctions are popular fundraising events that all kinds of nonprofits use to engage and connect with their supporters. Don’t be discouraged. Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Tips for Nonprofits 8 min read Read Now 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

Some of the entries of what you can read on the Walker Blog, may appear at first glance to be mundane details of cube life , but then you remember that it is a museum blog and it makes the institution seem more human. The education department wanted a website for their Civic Engagement Initiative, and a blog seemed like a good match.

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