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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

Museum 2.0

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

The best live auction items are relevant to your unique event audience’s interests, hard to come by for the average person, and reasonably priced. Auctioneers have to capture the audience’s attention with eye-catching items that spark bidding wars. For example, you could create a bundle with art, history, and science museum passes.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 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! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Hiring A Google Grants Manager: A Guide & 9 Agencies

Nonprofits Source

If you’ve already created your account, their team will review your account and pinpoint opportunities. By testing different versions of your ads, they’ll discover exactly what inspires your audience to take action. Each ad will be targeted to capture your audience’s attention. Ongoing account hygiene.

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The Eye of the Beholder

Museum 2.0

Struth takes photographs of museum-goers as they gaze, pick their noses, chat on cell phones, and fidget in front of classically great works of art. Says the reviewer, Michael Kimmelman, Mr. Struth’s pictures are about this continuum, from artists like Velázquez into the public spaces where their works end up, and to us.

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"It Is What It Is," and the Challenges of Dialogue-Focused Exhibits

Museum 2.0

I sat down this morning to write a negative review of an exhibit. Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." I saw It Is What It Is twice at the Hammer Museum. Even for me, the barriers were too high.

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