Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2009

In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

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. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. It frames and personalizes the exhibit experience. That's why I asked.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

I visited a friend last weekend who works at a coffee shop in downtown Santa Cruz, right next to the Museum of Art and History. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. Why doesn’t the whole Museum of Art and History look and feel like the coffee shop? There was funky music.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2010

Last week, I took in the new Galileo science show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. There’s no art museum where Picasso is portrayed as a boozy goofball on the make. Tags: children's museums programs. Does making science fun really require turning scientists into clowns? But the show felt like candy. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

We tried this at the Denver Art Museum last week, and it is incredibly challenging—you can’t just put out a box of chocolates and expect people to talk. We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2008

I'll be speaking at the end of the month at the AAM meeting in Denver, chairing sessions on virtual worlds (Tuesday 9am) and design inspirations from outside the museum field (Tuesday 10:30am). Some topics that are already on the docket include: installation art, social objects, rock gardens, and the Falkirk Wheel.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The article references connecting with young people via social media, at-risk youth via exhibit co-creation, and urban creatives via public art installations. The Denver Community Museum was an entire institution in a little storefront. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. See the link to the left.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

One of the things that makes the visitor stories contributed in the Denver Art Museum's Side Trip exhibition so compelling and on-topic is a design approach that elevates visitors' responses to comparable footing with the predesigned content. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

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. Tags: professional development. you can do a lot with a storefront.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

Why aren’t there such staff members in art or history museums? A few years ago at ASTC, Eddie Goldstein from the Denver Museum of Natural Science spoke about a very simple, highly effective element they added to their in-gallery offerings; a roving staff person with a laptop computer connected to the internet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

We are a national nonprofit that trains advocacy professionals, people working for nonprofits full-time, in the fine arts of collaboration, leadership, listening, speaking, conflict resolution, and collaboration across organizational boundaries. We have a subgroup on LinkedIn called Rockwood that alumni have tagged themselves.

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