Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. Imagine a historic site.

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Museum Product Participatory Community 53

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Participatory Arts Design Museum 20

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. Community is key: working with, not for. What would the structure be like?

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. Conference sessions on reaching young people. Access programs aimed at low-income people.

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Audience Washington Museum Intergenerational 49

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Any place with people working different schedules in different parts of the building suffers from it. We thought for a minute about more complicated backchannel options but realized that what we really wanted was an easy-to-use, opt-in space where people could share what''s going on with their work. This problem is nothing new.

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Facebook Museum Participatory Adopt 55

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. It happens because people see an opening where there wasn't one before. The magic isn't by design.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. Unlike people with paid positions, you will have the opportunity to focus entirely on creating a killer project. Let me be frank.

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Museum History Participatory Arts 53

Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. They turned Market Street into a playground, a performance hall, and a meeting place. A hexagonal ping pong table that invited six people (often strangers) to play together. Invitation works better than confrontation.

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San Francisco Arts Design Marketing 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Interaction Design Museum Participatory 47

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? They are frequently about real people's stories. Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?"

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. We've increased attendance among people who are new to museum experiences. Engagement with local artists. all over the place. Keep your arms behind your back.

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Museum Denver Artist Milwaukee 49

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. For Lisa, the goal is for people to engage with the exhibitions. People love petting zoos.".

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Museum Arts History Columbus 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

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. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

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. The more I learned about the Museum, the more I talked with people about it, the more I saw that it was a better fit for my goals than the cafe.

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History Museum Arts Consultant 55

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was. I imagined people weighing themselves everyday without looking at the scale and then also guessing what their weight was. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

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. We all know Santa Cruz is such a creative place," she said.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

But when people told us what they loved about the museum, they didn’t use the word “participation.” It is a group of people connected by something shared. That something may be a place, an identity, an interest, a worldview. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County. They talked about community building.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

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 Participatory Artist Arts 24

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

LinkedIn has a new feature where people can congratulate each other on work anniversaries. It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. We have an incredible group of people working together at the MAH right now.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

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." We want to cultivate a more diverse audience, especially younger people, and we want to do it authentically." Fabulous!" "But This is incredibly scary. So what's the solution?

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. It's not the extent to which they are participatory. While most of my favorites are small (idiosyncrasy is easier to maintain without too many committees), some are quite large--places like the Exploratorium where a singular ethos infuses a massive facility. It's a Starbucks.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

He noted that many institutions I talk about that successfully foster personal relationships with visitors are small places. How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve?

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Community Museum Participatory Relationship 21

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. When planning programs or events, we involve a combination of these groups to share and bridge audiences, bringing big, diverse crowds to new artists and ideas. Large and small (or no) followings.

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Collaboration Community Tools Museum 55

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. People are having fun with this experience, and who can blame them? We use these stories to try to understand objects and the people who own and use them, and to poke a little fun while we're at it.

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Museum Alternative Portland Artist 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Some experiences completely cut across demographics - some people like parties, some people want a solitary experience with art. People want to experience art in quite individual ways. In some cases, the artist is not comfortable, or there are insurance and liability issues. And we confirmed that hypothesis.

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Interview Director Museum Arts 46

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. Yes, Foot in the Door draws lots of diverse people--both contributors and visitors.

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Participatory Museum Arts Artist 46

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

I am recommending the transcript of Clay Shirky's speech about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus , in which he argues that the next twenty years will be marked by people's slow, incremental, and astoundingly impactful awakening from being passive consumers (of TV) to partly active content creators. The paper is the easy part. But one page!

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Museum Library Participatory Wikipedia 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A way to bring people on opposite sides of an issue to a fruitful, positive meeting place? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. What is the Living Library?

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

If you don’t watch Big Brother , The Apprentice , Dancing with the Stars or X factor you probably dismiss these shows because they revolve around people you don’t know in an environment you find uninteresting and over-hyped. A fairly large label with this week’s chart position was placed next to each artwork.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. 50 people giving $20 each is enough to hire a reporter to go more in depth into a specific topic that those 50 people think is important. It's not fun for some people.

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Interview Fund Report Community 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

We did not ask people to design whole exhibits and hand over CAD drawings so we could build them. If good ideas are easy to come by, why not let other people contribute them and focus our time on the hard work of execution? People were unsure whether they should go it alone (and try to win the whole prize) or team up with others.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Want to be surrounded by thousands of people who are doing the same? The artists come from all over (though many are based in the Midwest), and anyone can enter. Artprize invited me to talk about art with artists, families, security guards, friends, people old and young, sophisticated and novice, drunk and sober.

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Arts Experiment Artist Social 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. This is a tiny example of social bridging--people making connections to others who are not like them, who have different backgrounds, ages, races, professions, etc.

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Community Teen Build Social 42

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. In addition to the display board of recently completed sheets, we collected older sheets in two large binders for visitors to flip through, and placed one in the gallery and another at the table.

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Museum Arts Problem Design 45

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Because they were a part of the experience rather than the focal point, they could impart an air of friendliness and participation without making people feel that they had to participate. Then, they offered different shapes and colors of post-its, as well as pens and markers, for people to write responses. Not so for the post-its.

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