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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

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. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Yes, some people (especially vocal museum staff!) But what about visitors?

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Visitors in Focus

Museum 2.0

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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Amazing AI Images for Impact: AI Generators for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

This surprised us and evokes a modern art museum vibe that is incredibly eye-catching. A great place to start is by going through the DALL-E-2 prompt book , which is full of amazing examples of how to frame requests. Well, if you can describe that vision well enough, AI image generators can give you, and potential donors a visual.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. Large-Format Photography. Environmental Impact.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. Large-Format Photography. Environmental Impact.

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Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Museum 2.0

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

Museum 2.0

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things.

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