Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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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. The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community. The plaza serves as a kind of front porch to the museum, ushering visitors old and new. “I

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. We said yes, and they have now participated in several events, offering a unique mix of traditional tea ceremony, koto music, and bedazzled plastic microphones (see bottom left of photograph). Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. The most reliable question I'm using works in art museums. That's why I asked.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

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." All were given value. They offered genuinely interesting learning experiences.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. I immediately flashed to my work with art museums and staff members' concerns that older, traditional audiences will shy away from social engagement in the galleries.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

While there are some kinds of participation that are not language-based like making art or voting, most participation is lingual. Many fabulous participatory projects--like the Johnny Cash Project or the Art Gallery of Ontario's " In Your Face "--don't require language. designate the difference between languages using design.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. This require human centered-software and human-centered communities.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use. What kind of an art institution is this? It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. It takes the kind of risks that a university art gallery should take. They were there for artist talks.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. The most reliable question I'm using works in art museums. That's why I asked.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology IP Tidbits August 18, 2005 Here are a few tidbits I’ve come across in the Intellectual Property arena in the past few days. This is very cool. It’s definitely a thing to watch.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. I'm biased, because she's demonstrating a participatory project, but she was able to "show, not tell" her interest in engaging with people. Music videos. I loved this video by Tracie Farrell. Museum staffers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. The recording starts with two and a half minutes of music without talking. How can you use specific yet evocative instructions to invite visitors into complicit acts of exploration and art?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2018

95% of our piano users play music, beautifully. This is the participatory museum, played out loud. Sometimes a lover's duet. This week, it was a little guy , attended by a stuffed toy on the piano bench. It's rare that someone sits down to bang out noise. The piano is a simple invitation to meaningful visitor participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

" Her blog is not focused on one topic "because that is a basic impossibility for me an extremely curious generalist with interests in: technology, social history, change, progress, politics, economics, current affairs, biology, evolutionary biology, civil society, soveriegnty, botany, literature, music(s), ethnomusicology, enthobotany, NYC, (..)

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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. There were thousands of people in the park for plays, free music, and beautiful scenery. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. See the link to the left.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

On the web, such socializing can happen around games (MMOs), shopping (Amazon discussions), trip planning (TripAdvisor), music or book collections ( Librarything ). I once toured an art museum with an art educator who told me that she thinks of certain pieces as “old friends” who she loves to visit and communicate with from time to time.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Imagine this situation: You go to an arts event, one of a type you rarely or never take part in. Maybe it's a live music concert, or a museum visit, or a play. There's been a lot of innovation in arts programming in the last few years. There's been a lot of innovation in arts programming in the last few years.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

We rarely offer alcoholic beverages, comfortable seating, background music, or free admission to go with the art, lectures, and interactive experiences now available in many hybrid retail spaces. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. It's also standard practice in community arts programs.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Imagine a music store where each CD lists the names of the last 20 people to pick it up, and what those people ultimately bought. I can just imagine the headline: CHILD MOLESTERS CALL ON ART, VICTIMS. How can going to an art museum be more like going to a convention for people who love art?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. But these “soft skills” are not magic.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. 11/10/2016.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

For a long time, I knew I cared deeply about designing from "me to we" --inviting visitors to form social connections through participatory experiences--but I couldn't express a clear reason why. I'm just glad it did--and I want to do whatever I can to make it happen more often. Social bridging is becoming my why.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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