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Visitor Voices Part 3: Co-Creating and Control

Museum 2.0

The Exploratorium's Nanoscape project, in which visitors and volunteers built giant walk-through models of nanoscale structures, had a different kind of impact; instead of displaying visitors' unique expressions of self, it displayed the power of collective action by visitors, harnessed by an institution.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

And it really came because I tend to be pissed off and I was pissed off that people were talking about community and inclusion but there was no evidence in their structure for it. One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground. Everyone was talking about community.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Elizabeth Cowell was British broadcaster and the first female announcer to grace the television airways for the BBC in 1936, just before the network launched its television service. Rosalind Franklin. She went on to earn several more titles and an Olympic gold medal and is still one of only four women to win a title after becoming a mother.

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