Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. folk through comments, emails to me, and hallway conversations. The greatest gift you can give me is your thoughtful comments.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. You can see more comments from participants here and here and see a photo set from one participant here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

So I felt lucky last week to learn not only about an innovative arts exhibition employing geocaching, but to discover that its exhibit developer, Seth! commented that the demographic of people who are involved is much broader than you’d think, including lots of families looking for a fun, educational, free activity.

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Museum Teen Arts Project 20

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. As always, I welcome your questions and comments. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. Early in my career, I worked at the local food bank. Partner with a local business. If you are a food pantry, partner with local restaurants or markets. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is.

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Fundraising Fund Teen Newsletter 120

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

Later, Elaine comments: Now, after researching the topic, I am less certain that broadening the audience for museums is achievable in general. These staff members are true representatives of their community, and help give the museum street cred with their local visitors as an acceptable and positive place to visit.

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People Museum San Jose Chapter 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. The article references connecting with young people via social media, at-risk youth via exhibit co-creation, and urban creatives via public art installations. Be free, nearly free, often free, or free for locals.

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. I’m thinking of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is trying to be a museum for people, but is also a national and collection-based place. Some art people would say it’s not a museum since it’s not real stuff.

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Museum Puerto Rico Change Boston 20

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. If you like the post, please check out the thoughtful and complicated comments on the original post. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. They were in a playful mood, talking about the objects, playing the games, responding on the comment boards. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. Next time, everyone was talking.

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Community Teen Build Social 42

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

MAY 20, 2015

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. Sree struck up a conversation and learned that they had missed their chance to try out for labanda, a local American idol like show. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art.

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Digital Learning Artist Miami 50

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

How much do we value brand awareness outside of local markets? Many museums run outreach programs at a variety of levels of local to global reach. Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Let's look at these one by one.

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. Imagine an art museum that allowed patrons to bang on the exhibits the way you can in a science center. I encourage you to add your own examples and thoughts on this list to the comments.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So send in your questions and comments. And I know some of my clients are very local. They do very local work, and it’s only the small local foundations that are interested, at least initially, in funding them. We will get all that good stuff in your hands just a couple of hours after we finish up here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. Local politics are personal, accessible.

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Community Museum Local Participatory 20

Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

There are people doing art. If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. I ran a takeover for Boston Public Schools around college month and of course, they are not going to give away the keys to all the teens. I know everyone maybe thinks of Twitch and they think of gamers and video games.

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