Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. Share your story with other visitors.

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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. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?"

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. But that's only part of the story. The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums. These institutions have three additional reasons for homogeneity: The audience cycles frequently as families "age out."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

After her husband’s sudden death in 1955, and with three children to raise, my grandmother grew the store, purchasing the ends of fabric bolts and ribbons from local mills, secondhand clothing, toys, dishwares, books, and an assortment of knickknacks to sell. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. First, every time a photo is shared, it extends the reach of your objects and exhibit stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. in Ghana here and a story about the use of a wiki in Zambia by my colleague Saskia here. t do it for an audience. The audience may come, but to keep going regardless of readership, it???s t have a habit of reading on the web.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

However, by the end of the first week it was clear that the majority of our audience was hooked. As well as our existing audience, new visitors came just because they wanted to be part of it. As well as our existing audience, new visitors came just because they wanted to be part of it. Projects participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

This seems like an appropriate time to share the story. My story is more a case of "Getting Hired: It's What You Want, How Aggressive You Are, and What Ideas You Can Offer." I learned to appreciate the audience reach of a big institution while vastly preferring the diversity of work and lack of bureaucracy of a small one.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

In the case of Slavery in New York , the end of the exhibition featured a story-capture station at which visitors could record video responses to a series of four questions about their reactions to the exhibition. If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Particularly for children's museums, protecting users in a museum-controlled space is a premium. For example, consider Tree of Promise , a private social network created and managed by the Indianapolis Children's Museum. It is an integral part of a new permanent exhibition, The Power of Children. Some reasons include.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. This post appears here in excerpted form; you can read the whole story here. This coincides with the identification of 20- and 30-year-olds as an audience targeted for growth in attendance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Many organizations are keeping tabs of what is being said about their organization or programs on blogs and responding directly, telling their side of the story.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. Over the last week, there’s been a lively discussion on the wiki about the key audiences and goal of the book, and I wanted to open that up to you (and you are, of course, welcome to join the wiki and help). And there’s a third reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. Identify conversation starters with our audience to engage them more on social networks. Encourage our audience to share their stories, not just tell people what we do. I don’t teach that way. Have our organization become more like a Sponge.

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