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Sending Collections on the Road: Geocaching and Museums

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For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here. Add some history about the museum or the area.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. The content was developed in a participatory way but is presented traditionally via artifacts, text, photos, and audio.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

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You can view (and download ) the slides and audio here, which feature our provocations and the discussion that followed. The audio starts noisy. This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. but it gets better. and displayed in the museum.

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