Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 10, 2016
Museum technology nerds: this post is for you. I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) as they make their way through the world outside the museum. At the museum? but none of them are great. At the historic site?
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 8, 2012
A woman walks into your museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum.
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Connection Cafe
MARCH 18, 2020
– Gurukarm Khalsa, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston . Until I took time to find places for everything and a system that worked my disorganization was adding to my anxiety.” . – Jose Orora, The San Diego Museum of Art . as per normal. Especially useful if/when participating in video meetings.” .
Museum 2.0
JULY 4, 2007
On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Today, discussion with Elaine about ways museums choose their direction, how change is possible, and new museum types to be added to the list. What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum?
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? And the "stuff" of the game is real stuff, artifacts created by players and sent to the museum. To expand their audiences.
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 27, 2007
You can put a display at the front of the museum. The Boston Library main branch used to have an “ask a librarian” booth in the front featuring a person sitting at a card table with some books. Or perhaps that it would be hard to come up with a system that would fairly reflect the diversity of staff/visitors.
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OCTOBER 19, 2006
This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. "It is important to recongize that these are complex learning environments and information systems. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. local time).
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