Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51