Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

I once worked on a project where the main goal behind our community-based participatory model was to make our exhibit process faster and cheaper. And that's a major monkey wrench in the standard models for how museums operate, staff, and fund their work. But it's never done.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

There is the Art Gallery of Ontario's portrait exhibition In Your Face , for which the museum solicited and displayed thousands of visitor-created self-portraits. Imagine the Art Gallery of Ontario staff, sorting, hanging, and managing the 17,000 self-portraits they received for In Your Face. They weren't curating.

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Voice Create Museum Arts 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

The New York Hall of Science’s Career Ladder successfully recruits and advances neighborhood teens as floor explainers, and their full-time staff includes many people who have come “up through the ranks.” The Brooklyn Museum of Art found that skateboarders were using their entrance plaza and invited them to continue.

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People Museum San Jose Chapter 20

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

When you embrace this donor-based model of thinking about the needs and desires of your donors, fundraising gets easier. Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. a teen girl with a huge, confident smile.

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Fund Fundraising Teen Newsletter 120

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? social networking model to the real world, the implications of tracking, publishing, and spreading become obvious. I can just imagine the headline: CHILD MOLESTERS CALL ON ART, VICTIMS. When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind?

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. Everything Is In Service of the Art: The met has over 70 staff members on its digital team. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art.

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Digital Learning Artist Miami 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. Imagine an art museum that allowed patrons to bang on the exhibits the way you can in a science center. Focusing on youth audiences can lead to heavy and sometimes inappropriate self-censorship.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Maybe it’s one of the teens that participate in the Girls and Boys Club after-school program, or maybe it’s an adult that has truly benefited from some of the healthcare services you provide. I share with you budget templates, grant application templates, logic models, letters of inquiry that we just talked about.

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Grant Video Donor Foundation 100

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Let’s walk through a selection of unique nonprofit websites that not only incorporate these elements but go above and beyond to impress visitors and inspire donations: Interlochen Center for the Arts. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts. North Shore Animal League. Mustard Seed Communities. Gooley Hemophilia Center.

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Websites Organization Nonprofit Game 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

That funding model is a powerful one. The library’s funding model makes it uniquely responsive to the community. There’s an extensive LGBTQ+ community archive, one associated with a local arts organization, and the library is in the process of developing a local Covid archive as well. .

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