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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

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ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. Historic St. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum.

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The Nonprofit Weekly Roundup: Signature Sounds, Writing It Down, and Picking Up Tabs.

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You would think I would have the perfect see-ya-later wave almost down to an art by now, especially considering I’m living 700 miles away from friends and family (despite me trying everything except putting for-sale signs in their yards to get them to move closer). My cube-mate is moving to St. Louis for six months.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

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Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum.

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City Museum Video Contest: Cool Idea. What Happened?

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A couple months ago, I read with great excitement about the St. Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. For those who haven't visited, the City Museum is part obstacle course, part art city, part shoelace factory. And in June, they launched a creative user-generated content contest. I'm not in St.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

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people who engage with your content online? This summer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it. Outdoor movies at the art museum?

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Game Friday: Lessons in Environmental Storytelling from an Imagineer

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If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. It combines a job bank with news about developments in the gaming world and, my favorite, an impressive collection of feature articles on the art, business, and production of games.

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