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Take a Side Trip to the Denver Art Museum

Museum 2.0

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it.

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Empowering Staff to Take Creative Risks

Museum 2.0

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, I was honored to chair a fabulous panel on empowering museum staff to take creative risks ( slides here ). His supervisors kept saying no, nicely, and he kept making his powerpoints. His supervisors kept saying no, nicely, and he kept making his powerpoints.

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Dangerous/Ridiculous: Reflections on AAM

Museum 2.0

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. Here are our slides and Ellen's handouts if you want to learn more. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. It's interesting to me that this year's conference seemed so art-heavy when it comes to participation.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

You can view and download all the slides here. Adam Lerner shared the story of Superheroes , a storefront in downtown Denver operated by a web designer who wanted to invite people to use his space to hang out, read magazines, and make things via letterpress. you can do a lot with a storefront.

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An Interview with Jeska Linden about Nonprofits in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We created and ran the web site for the Liberal Arts College in an atmosphere which, upon reflection is a lot like Linden Lab. In 2001, I started at the Digital Media Studies Masters program at the University of Denver. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. I fell into the wonderful world of web site creation.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon: Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. The most reliable question I'm using works in art museums.

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Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

Museum 2.0

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. The most reliable question I'm using works in art museums.