Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2017

This is the tenth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Staff members wanted to protect the MAH’s focus on reflecting the diversity of our community. We’re very close to hitting all these targets.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

Our conversation made me reflect on the museums that most inspire me from a public service perspective--institutions with missions that stretch far beyond their walls. This isn't so much about expanding outreach services as it is about fundamentally repositioning what the institution is there to do.

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EveryAction

MARCH 2, 2017

Check out the local art that is featured regularly. The hottest ticket in DC has to be the National Museum of African American History & Culture. The newest addition to the Smithsonian cadre, its collections feature powerful moments in African American history, culture, and community and is a must-see. Pleasant Pops.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2019

I learned this terminology later, from Beck Tench , who studies, mentors, and leads institutional change in public space. She was being a spacemaker for me and for other creative risk-takers on her team.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Use existing sources of information to complement your primary research This may include academic studies, reports from other nonprofits, government data, or articles and publications relevant to your cause. Common segmentation criteria for nonprofits include such as age, location, interests, communication preferences and donation history.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

This past July, artist Guillermo Gómez proposed to restore a piece of art. Both objects and art-objects would be part of this continuing transformation and evolution. As a guardian of a collection, Elsewhere breaks a marker of tradition by allowing art and object to be transformed.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. You can download all the slides here. Be rigorous.

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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. Openly invite collaboration by establishing and maintaining transparency about your partnerships with the public and fellow staff members. Can't wait to hear what you think.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum recently loaned us some fabulous surfboards that tell the co-mingled history of surfing and redwood trees in Santa Cruz. We blatantly borrowed the brilliant technique the San Diego Museum of Natural History used to write labels based on visitors’ questions. who were the surfers who used them?” “how

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

And so I would like to offer a public apology for this, and to share with you some of the lessons of facilitating brainstorming that I have learned over many years of successful and not so successful workshops. "Wild idea" sessions , featuring six dream projects, some already in motion, others firmly ensconsed in their creators' heads.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

This community was ready for a museum that reflected the unique creative identity of Santa Cruz. Community response. Every time we've tried something new, we've gotten lots of support in terms of media coverage and enthusiastic attendance.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I''m sufficiently externally-driven to realize that having a public place for my learning helps me stay focused and keep producing. Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic. Blogging forces me to have a reflective part of my practice on a weekly basis, even when I feel about as reflective as a black carpet.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

It’s part art and part science. First, you have to have the right story for the right publication. There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. They can reflect on the past two decades and share their wisdom. And part relationship. .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. We wanted to end up with a group that reflects the diversity of our County across many strata: age, class, gender, ethnicity, geography, and profession. I struggle with both these options.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

Reading The Great Good Place provides an opportunity as museum professionals to identify third places in our community, reflect upon our relationship to them, and consider the ways our museum could be a third place for members in the community. How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Our Story I came to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago. As one visitor recently commented, "the MAH has become 'our' museum, a reflection of us and a place where we can appreciate art, share it with each other, learn and make new connections." At the time, we were fighting for survival.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Hackerspaces are about people, not content Hackerspaces are hybrid private clubs/public educational spaces. In some cases, such as AS220 labs , they are part of larger community art spaces. But these places are museums first, member communities second, and their approaches reflect a need to retain some institutional control.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Sheroes in the Arts. Thought Leaders. Revolutionaries. Game-Changers.

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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! Consider the experience of the Computer History Museum and their Yelp! event, the Computer History Museum had 15 reviews on Yelp! meetup for Elite Yelp! Me: Me neither.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. Would you post your entire collections database as a downloadable file on the public website?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I always assumed that this would be a semi-private endeavor and that the public nature of the blog would just be an efficient vehicle for sharing my ideas with a small group of interested folks. at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By In other words, there's a lot going on.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Imagine you run a performing arts organization dedicated to saving theater programs in your local public school system. They know that if they put their name on a poorly made product, it reflects on their good name—and degrades their ability to make money. . It’s the same reason that businesses are so protective of their brands.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Reassert the "forum"?

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

On the philanthropy side, we know that demand for additional sources of funds will continue to increase at both independent and public institutions. Public institutions fared slightly better than their private counterparts in our most recent survey. billion in our 2020 report from $49.6 in our 2019 report.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. Some people commune with the art. Value is reflected in the diversity of the people who participate, the power of the experiences we offer, and their ripple effects throughout the county.

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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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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It is our turn to make history. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project / Austin, TX / $575. With continuous shifting trends in the landscape of arts marketing and audience engagement, arts organizations must go beyond “embracing” change.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum of Art is a great example of a museum really embracing these environments for community-building purposes. Most free social networks include advertising that may not reflect museum mission. Finding the right public social networks to tie into is a no-brainer--it gives you access to your visitors in a whole new way.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

You might sort your audience by age, gender, giving preference, giving history, or donation type. Keeping both your print and digital branding consistent with each other makes it easy for supporters to remember your organization and will help you build a positive reputation with the general public.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2011

I appreciate that you write about museums, and by doing so, publicize their work and efforts. There are two basic assumptions you've made lately that I think are flawed: the idea that (art) museums are fundamentally for a contemplative experience, and that techniques that distract from classical forms of contemplation are therefore bad.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When I started at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in May, one of my priorities was redesigning our website. I didn't want to do anything fancy--just make the site more functional, lively, easy to update, and reflective of the new institutional vision of being a community hub. battles that can lead to incoherence.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

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. The position of community to museum for many people hinged on the collections. can find nourishment.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Her research has been featured in tons of magazines and publications and is all over the place delivering those findings, but was again gracious enough to carve out an hour to share all that with us. That is true art and science of fundraising. She has been published all over the place. So I’m so excited. Now, show your love.

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