Arts, History, Library and Participatory

Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Embarking on Your AAPI Heritage Month Journey Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrated every May in the United States, provides an important opportunity to honor the history, culture, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Displaying AAPI visual arts is another engaging activity.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture

Goodbye Consulting, Hello Museum of Art & History!

Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). Because of the increased workload I expect in the months to come, as well as the likely possibility that we will start a Museum of Art & History blog, I'm lowering my Museum 2.0

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History Museum Arts Consultant

Introducing Community Participation Bootcamp at the MAH

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp. Develop compelling, powerful participatory offers and promises for your prospective partners. Tour MAH participatory exhibitions and shadow MAH community events. We'd love to have you here for this pilot year.

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Community Participatory Museum Registration

The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation

Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. 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.

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Museum Participatory Interaction Classroom

Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

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. I wrote The Participatory Museum in response to this energy--to put together case studies in the context of a design framework so we could talk as a field about what works and why.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation

Techniques for Identifying and Amplifying Social Objects in Museums

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Museum Technique Taiwan Social

Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation

What Does Audience-Centered Look Like? It Looks like Glasgow Museums.

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. One hundred years ago, John Cotton Dana, founder of the Newark Museum and godfather of modern museums, famously said: “A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established."

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Museum Audience Music Arts

Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. For our Art That Moves event, our Membership and Development Director suggested the incredibly popular Tarp Surfing activity. Can't wait to hear what you think.

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Collaboration Community Tools Museum

New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. event, the Computer History Museum had 15 reviews on Yelp!

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Museum Hosting Model Community

Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

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.” I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina

AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children

Two Years Later

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By Institutions tying their online and onsite activities, as the Ontario Science Centre did when it hosted a YouTube meetup , or the Smithsonian American Art Museum did when they developed an alternate reality game. There is funding.

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory

The Matter of Museums

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Museums are quality learning spaces, but so are libraries. Museum house things, but so do libraries. For many people museums are purveyors of and intercessors with history. — Art + Museum Transparency (@AMTransparency) September 21, 2019 Museum Transparency brought up the fact that museums are work places.

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Museum Place Life Ohio

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Introducing Community Participation Bootcamp at the MAH

The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Techniques for Identifying and Amplifying Social Objects in Museums

Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

What Does Audience-Centered Look Like? It Looks like Glasgow Museums.

Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Two Years Later

The Matter of Museums

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