Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. I immediately flashed to my work with art museums and staff members' concerns that older, traditional audiences will shy away from social engagement in the galleries.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. The art of advising communities of practice. re online, you blog and you have young children. I found a new balance since the children go to school and want to play with friends rather than with me. I'm too shy to do an online poll.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

By the standard set by a culture that judges MySpace as dangerous, perhaps these in-person interactions are even MORE dangerous. I can just imagine the headline: CHILD MOLESTERS CALL ON ART, VICTIMS. Children's museums are the exception; staff are on the watch for unaccompanied adults and kids alike.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans. Where are we not putting our energy? ” Okay.

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 121

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

He defined museums as “a lifeline between its community and the wider cultural landscape. A place where knowledge grows in collaboration w/ a broad range of people both within & beyond the museum, from scientists to children & all in between.” Chris Totten summed up many of these threads well. A museum is a workplace.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. There was a self-aggregating group who toured an art exhibition.

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Participatory St. Louis Museum Game 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. But what if the "traditional" arts experiences is a myth? What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I didn't grow up staring open-mouthed at natural history dioramas or wandering through art galleries. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. My story is about radical educational philosophy. I don't work in museums because I love them. When I visit a new city, I don't clamor to visit museums.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. That’s our main difference with Oldenburg.

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