Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

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. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. You can see more comments from participants here and here and see a photo set from one participant here. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor. Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. You can download all the slides here. Be rigorous.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic. But I know that even in times of chaos--especially in those times--it''s important to take time to reflect on what you are doing and making and learning. It is these other aspects--learning, reflection, community--that keep me going. To me, Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. Please share yours in the comments. Design paired activities to reflect or at least respect the sensibility of their work, and where possible, involve them in the design. Get a good eraser.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2015

In art institutions, we typically treat the curator as the arbiter of quality. Why are we so afraid that great art will lose its power if we surround it with other work? We wanted to reflect this diversity of identities by inviting all kinds of artists and artworks into the gallery. Did you feel brave? The ocean is a force.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. When Anna did followup surveys, it became clear that many stories were more intimate to individual jar-makers than their coded labels reflected. Please share your stories in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

The broad mandate to "open it up" was backed up by a lot of activity on multiple fronts--comment boards, participation-specific internships, program formats that allow us to slot in enthusiastic volunteers easily, more flexible uses of some museum spaces, and a range of options and opportunities for collaborators. Community response.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. Our visitors are about 8% Latino.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. If you want a chance of winning a copy, leave a comment saying how you might apply some of the science of participation to your social media strategy.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

We're looking for an Exhibitions Manager to join our team here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Spurred partly by the most recent (and fabulous) issue of the Exhibitionist and conversations we're having at our museum, I'd like to hear your reflections on how you think about exhibition formats and schedules.

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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? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

, an exhibition produced with schoolchildren at the Wallace Collection in London, is a lovely example of co-creation that demonstrates the multiple benefits of inviting audience members to act as partners in arts organizations. The exhibition reflects the particular interests and abilities of children while maintaining high quality.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. The American Museum of Natural History had two wonderful moments happening this summer.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I even made some gaffes--for example, confusing the University of Texas natural history museum with the Utah natural history museum (the "UT" slipped me up)--but they took it in stride, continuing the conversation without embarrassing me.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss and I are each writing blog posts about our collaborative process to develop a theory of change at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. It depends.

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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. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

My digital sloppiness has a long history. Back in the earlier days of Internet publishing (circa 1994-5), UNIX programmer types used to cruise my Arts Wire SpiderSchool instructional web pages and point out to me that in line 24 of code I forgot a quote mark or even worse that I had made a typo in the text. Yes, it got messy.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If not, please share a comment and let's talk online. Our Story I came to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago. As one visitor recently commented, "the MAH has become 'our' museum, a reflection of us and a place where we can appreciate art, share it with each other, learn and make new connections."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. The Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

The title of this post is a play on a book I read The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith in 1998 when I was working with arts educators on integrating technology into their lesson plans. Smith's book explains the history of learning theories and practice. Chel Pixel has another method that shared in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Reading The Great Good Place provides an opportunity as museum professionals to identify third places in our community, reflect upon our relationship to them, and consider the ways our museum could be a third place for members in the community.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

I peed, read the sign, and added my comments to the growing list on the wall. Or alternatively, what kind of culture are you trying to build, and what indicators reflect that? I’d forgotten about Legends of the Stall , assuming it was ticking along in the background or pushed aside by the busy-ness of daily tasks. And left, smiling.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. The Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

And when I think back on the last year and how it compared to year one of blogging, the shining difference is you--your interest, your comments, and most of all, your extraordinary example. at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Walker Art Center New Media Blog Interview with New Media Designer Community Programs Blog Interview with community program. Some comments by Bob Moffit about their blogging experience. March of Dimes Nancy White reflects on the project in response to postings by me and Lisa from Rherotic of Me. Gilbert commented.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons. I encourage you to share your own rules and thoughts on this in the comments. Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Reassert the "forum"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ? Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? Ask leaders to be accountable to the mission. There are several good resources on evaluating participation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Each of these articles--and the comments around them--are fascinating artifacts of a debate that has been behind the scenes for too long. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. Some people commune with the art. Some visit the archives.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2013

Presentations should cover 5 areas: (a) General overview: goal, history, timing of the failure; (b) What went right? (c) During this reflection, many new ideas on how to pivot and iterate rise up. 6. Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund. What are some of the best examples in philanthropy? Please leave me a comment.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When I started at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in May, one of my priorities was redesigning our website. I didn't want to do anything fancy--just make the site more functional, lively, easy to update, and reflective of the new institutional vision of being a community hub. battles that can lead to incoherence.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Here are some questions your team can ask to help you reflect on last year’s results: What was our goal last year, and did we meet it? Try grouping your new donors by one of the following: Gender or age Contact method preference Average donation size Event attendance or volunteering history. Let your supporters do the talking.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments along the way. That is true art and science of fundraising. But for now, let’s talk about this in-group love and reflect a little bit on the other two. We’ll get you the recording. So don’t worry about that at all. So you can use those.

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