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Is it OK to Smash That? The Complications of Living Art Museums

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Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. blends sculpture, repetition, and ritual performance in a political statement about the genocide of animals in factory farms. It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. But art museums are coming back from the dead.

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Hack the Museum Camp Part 2: Making Magic, Reality TV, and Risk as a Red Herring

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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.

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Six Museum-Related Blogs You Might Not Know About That Are Really Good

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I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. For a year now, Peter Linett and his friends at Slover-Linett Strategies have been blogging thoughtfully about connecting with arts audiences in new ways. The Museum of the Future.

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

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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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Three Exhibition-Related Opportunities in 2013

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We're looking for an Exhibitions Manager to join our team here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This is a highly collaborative role, and we are looking for the perfect blend of strong design skills with a generous enthusiasm for amateur and professional co-creation. Come to Camp. Join the conversation.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

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I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? several years.

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Think Like a (Real Estate) Developer: Introducing Abbott Square, Part 9

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This is the ninth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Studying engineering taught me to think like a designer: state the problem, brainstorm, test, iterate.

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