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 Game Structure South America 21

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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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20

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. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. Rebuttal: none.

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Detroit Arts Public Support 49

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 Virtual Tech Second Life 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Most museum conferences are focused on professional learning and networking. In most sessions, I didn't learn new things to apply to my own museum practice; instead, I learned new things about what that practice looks like in different countries. It was also a frustrating experience. How are we addressing this woman?

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Reflection South Africa Guinea Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 7, 2020

With this one practice experience under my belt, this year my intention is to give myself a break in all aspects of my life. Pick a drastic change of attitude at the work day. I did this exactly experiment recently. But when I reflected, I noticed more people approached me to talk. People wanted to hire me. It was hard.

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Personal Training Train Goal 26

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 11, 2008

It’s an uncomfortable truth which is forcing me to examine my arguments for inclusivity, access, and populism in museums. In the Tetons, I had a highly exclusive, hard to access, fabulous experience. It’s an experience that requires permits, maps, physical ability, gear—a long list of barriers to entry. I get it now.

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Learning Museum Wyoming Map 23

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 Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

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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People Museum San Jose Chapter 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Welcome to the second in the four-part series on comfort (and its boundaries) in museums, a day late but just as tasty. I came out of it truly amazed by the power of the museum—not just to elicit laughter, but also to induce bizarre and voluntary acts of silliness in front of and with strangers. By making it a social experience.

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Program People Museum Lecture 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

What does your museum have to say about it? What do visitors expect of museums, and what do museums expect of themselves, when it comes to timeliness? This is partially driven by museums, which want to be seen as "forums" for discourse, but also by the expectations of a media-saturated public. Pluto just got demoted.

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Museum Boston Authoring Chapter 20

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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Life Create Change Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

We didn’t have explicit criteria for selection—it came down to whether a piece was outstanding and reflected the theme. There was a “let’s make it happen” attitude that I think was really appealing. Could you imagine making the editorial experience more participatory as well—crowd-sourcing the curation of the final magazine?

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