Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0 For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Designing a new program. Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. For example, when we held community meetings about the development of a new creative town square next to our museum, a group of middle/upper-class moms talked about not feeling safe downtown.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I've added a fourth model to this citizen science typology, one may be more appropriate to facilities like museums than to scientific organizations: co-option. Working with the museum or using the museum as a platform to do your own thing? There is no "best" level of participation for museums and cultural institutions overall.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members. Maybe I'm not following the rules!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Tags: Networked Nonprofit Training Design isconf.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

This week, thoughts on Chapter 12 of Elaine Gurian’s book Civilizing the Museum , "Threshold Fear: Architecture program planning." In this essay, Elaine discusses the various barriers to entry for non-traditional visitors to museums, that is, the threshold fear that keeps such potential visitors from walking in our doors.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 and watched the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2007

With this in mind, I’m starting to think about design techniques that encourage use, as opposed to visits, of museums. It’s about attitude. That’s why museums offer varied content and exhibitions—so you can have your bedroom and I can have my kitchen. Now the museum outlook seems grim. Tags: design.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

But over the last couple of months, I've learned about two tagging projects that actually get me excited-- CamClickr at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Posse at the Brooklyn Museum. When museums embark on collections-tagging projects, they are almost entirely focused on this secondary benefit. And that brings us to CamClickr.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

While not all of us are destined for such greatness, we all design and create for others. In museums, attention to the visitor--her desires, his preferences--has grown over the last few decades. But what does that really mean about our design practices? A group of disaffected naysayers whom you hope to rattle into engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted. Is it complex or simple?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

Last Friday, I witnessed something beautiful at my museum. I've been documenting lots of small bridging incidents at our museum over the past few months. It could have been the attitude of the museum that supports participation and conversation. At museums, we mostly bond with the friends and family with whom we attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

It helps me to understand the questions, concerns, and everyday context of many nonprofits that want to embrace emerging media like social or mobile and to design and build peer exchange programs or Train-the-Trainers programs. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Design your work flow. 2-4 hours per week.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Working with land, they bring people together to design and practice strategies for healing, health and reparative economics. ?. Various series on the National Museum for African American History and Culture Website —Explore African American history through digital activities on the Smithsonian Learning Lab platform.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2009

Recently, I've become obsessed with the work of Tim Hunkin , an eccentric British inventor/exhibit designer/wacky science art guy who runs a "mad arcade" of coin-operated installations in Suffolk. lowers the number of users who just bang on the things, thus reducing maintenance costs and enabling more risky interactive design.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Was it a museum professional or an outsider? I'm kneedeep in the final run-up to the opening of Operation Spy at the Spy Museum, but in the fleeting moments between disasters and near-disasters, I'm thinking about AAM. Several were created or conceived by a single person, often an artist/non-museum professional.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. And you really can only share your passion unless you have a kind of energized spirit and positive attitude, terrific.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Museum work includes many intellectual labors that draw on deep reserves of knowledge and years of experience. They weren’t similar in temperament or attitude. Understanding work, time, and efficiency in museums aren’t easy or universal. Museums have a lot of tasks that are terrible dates. Some people can just write.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Perfect combination of humor, personalization, and attitude that we’ve come to expect from this holiday campaign. Best Looking Emails: This is a tie between the Museum of Modern Art and charity: water for showing that you can still design beautiful emails despite all the constraints.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

When each piece was edited, it went to Derek Powazek, who was doing layout and design, and he made the executive decision about where to put everything for the most part. There was a “let’s make it happen” attitude that I think was really appealing. Tags: storytelling design Unusual Projects and Influences usercontent.

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