Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 18, 2022

In this article, we’re going to re-visit the importance of conflict in non-profit stories and discuss how to frame your conflict so that it’s motivating to your audience. But what about arts organizations or museums? For example, let’s say you’re a local children’s theater company. What about schools or conservation causes?

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

While some of your audience followed, do you know what happened to the rest? In this session, we discussed what retention has looked like for organizations during COVID-19 and what predictions we have for audiences returning. Our participants came from a variety of sectors including museums, advocacy, arts, religion, and education.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Every membership program needs a structure that appeals to its intended audience. Become a Member page on Florida Coalition for Children’s website The Florida Coalition for Children uses the members-as-advocates membership model to effect positive change in the child welfare system in Florida.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. SILVER – Virtual & Remote Experiences-Arts & Culture for Virtual & Remote. SILVER – Nonprofit Website.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Why aren't children's museums represented on Museum 2.0?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Have you ever been to a museum with no permanent exhibits ? On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. Plus, I know the next time I’m in Chicago, the museum will be a totally different experience, so I’m highly motivated to go back. Engage New Audiences with Tailored Special Events.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

It was a fabulous date night (check out said caricature), and the next day I was telling all of my friends – with and without children – that they had to visit Thinkery. The event is definitely a hit, and Thinkery has enjoyed increased revenue, an expanded audience, and an increase in their supporter base.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with. Because of supporters like you, we were able to provide a stable home for them and their three children during a financially difficult time. “We It depends on your audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. My focus is on how children learn science.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Only 10% of arts foundation funding goes to minority-led organizations, and worse, the higher a foundation's funding in the arts, the less likely their money goes to support organizations serving low-income or underrepresented audiences. He got to see the museum process from the inside.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. EMPSFM is one of a handful of museums worldwide for which the death of the King of Pop is a very big deal. Are museums only relevant when they can serve our most pressing needs?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2020

T alk of “social distancing” alongside announcements about museums and other cultural attractions closing or canceling events or performances may mean that you antici p ate a decline in attendance until COVID-19 passes. American Alliance of Museums: COVID-19/coronavirus Resources & Information for the Museum Field .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. Two years ago, my dad and I embarked on a podcast project called Museum Hater. Help people understand why you do what you do. What do you think?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

If you run a nonprofit museum, advocacy group, animal shelter or environmental protection organization, starting a summer camp could be a logical next step toward rewarding your members, donors and supporters. Almost any nonprofit that runs programs geared toward children could expand upon them in the form of a summer camp.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. Steve is a Principal at Audience Viewpoints Consulting, has a Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

How do you help visitors know what they can and cannot do in your museum? Most museums have this figured out: they have signs, they have guards, they have cases over the objects. And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. Our conversation made me reflect on the museums that most inspire me from a public service perspective--institutions with missions that stretch far beyond their walls. These museums work differently.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Megan Smith incisively covered the sad state of staffing in the museum industry pre-coronavirus, as well as her fears for staffers post-coronavirus, in a previous post for Museum 2.0 , so I won’t belabor this one. Make some assumptions, but prove those out by asking your audience(s) and examining their reaction to what you’re doing.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2020

The most important thing to remember is to find channels to reach your target visitors : the people most likely to visit your zoo, museum or aquarium or to attend a performance. . In the consideration stage, you want to entice patrons to visit your museum, aquarium, zoo or attend a performance. Consideration . Retention .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. Participants had to answer these questions: -What were the objectives, audience, and how did integrate with your marketing or audience development plan?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2010

Last week, I took in the new Galileo science show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He wrapped physical comedy, silly jokes, audience participation, and water balloons into a highly entertaining fifteen minutes. There’s no history museum doing a send-up of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It also drove me nuts.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

We still produce exhibitions, events, and educational programs for an audience, but that audience is just one of our major constituencies. Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's not every day that a visitor buys pizza for everyone in the museum. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The museum itself was well-integrated into the event. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor. Online to onsite migration isn't always easy.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2015

There are plenty of great arguments out there for WHY to make museums free. It''s much easier for art and history museums than for those museums that rely on admissions for a majority of their income (science, children''s). Nationally, admissions income generates only 1-4% of most art museums'' annual revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

It has brought augmented reality to a mainstream audience , with millions downloading the app and playing. Museums , gardens, and parks have jumped on it. Safety concerns for younger children , especially unsupervised have reported in the media. On the plus side, they are avoiding death by sitting.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2013

I''m heading to the American Alliance of Museums'' annual conference this weekend, and I''m psyched to reconnect with friends and mentors and meet new people who can inspire and stimulate fresh ideas. How can small museums with limited resources do some meaningful research with our staff and volunteers? Let me know.

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