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. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. The Museum 2.0 For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We see and hear the conversations that play out across platforms and between audiences. Over the years I have developed the ability to communicate those “gut checks” and voice it in a way that can sometimes lead to change. Are their voices being heard? Secondly, I’ve learned to speak up for those that aren’t in the room.

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North Carolina Social Social Media Voice 20

Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. And for those who have, they quickly understand that the Museum has much more to offer than can be absorbed in a day.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

This week, a look at the third section of Visitor Voices , the excellent book coedited by Kathy McLean and Wendy Pollock. Who controls the content in the museum? Who controls the museum experience? First, museum content. Several of the projects profiled allowed visitors a hand in creating museum content.

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Voice Create Museum Arts 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I got my copy of the fall issue of Museums and Social Issues this week. The theme is "Civic Dialogue," and the journal includes articles on the historical, cultural, media, and museum practice of getting people talking to each other (including one by me about such endeavors on the web).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. They talked about community building.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Family structures around the world are changing, yet mothers are most often the parent who will stay at home with young children. This is an amazing chance for up and coming women filmmakers to have their work viewed by a worldwide audience. stories story museum women international

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Museum International Story Music 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Second Life Museum Life Virtual 20

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. When projects effectively address pressing community needs, scientists can work effectively with new audiences who may not previously have seen themselves as participants in science.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

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

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings.

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

What does it mean when your audience is tired of itself? Some staff are wearying of the messiness, noise, and lack of structure in their new face. No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. by not changing.

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Experiment Create Museum Amazon 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Each week, I’ve been ceding the blog to others as a chance to hear many voices share their thoughts about our field, where we are, and where we are going. This field is varied, and each voice adds to our collective understanding of the situation. Andrea has been a leader in the museum technology field.

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Museum Detroit Arts Leadership 22

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

"The words we use in attempting to change museum directions matter. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. I am glad this conversation is happening and that both museum professionals and local Santa Cruzans are engaged. But we do have ''and.''

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. I felt accountable to an audience, and that kept me going throughout the writing. Check out the other parts here.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. The easiest way to do that is to acknowledge their uniqueness and validate their ability to connect with the museum on their own terms. Who is the "me" in the museum experience? Not so at museums.

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Museum Personal Experiment Profile 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

This week, a look at Chapters 16 and 17 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum. Many design firms--from architecture to video games--have structured ways for staff to engage in a variety of projects, teams, and disciplines to learn the business, develop strong working relationships, and understand the stakeholders better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

In the last few years, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. has been looking at our museum’s online information in the same way. A few weeks ago, American Art’s director, Elizabeth Broun, continued the discussion by holding an unprecedented all-day staff retreat to discuss the use of social media within the museum. • • •.

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Museum Arts Artist Conservancy 82

Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

"How often do we hear colleagues from museums and galleries stating as their fundamental reason for working co-creatively with audiences that they want to make a great piece of museum work, rather than primarily for reasons of social inclusion or democracy?"

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