Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. The paper is perforated with one section for the promise, which visitors keep, and another section for a signature, which visitors leave at the museum.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2015

Refresh it with these 10 tips for creating captivating websites. Image 6: Durango Discovery Museum. Whether you're looking for basic tech training, hard-core IT training, or nonprofit-specific training, our list of nonprofit tech training resources has you covered. Your Website Could Use a Refresh. You Want to Tell Better Stories.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2010

Last week, I took in the new Galileo science show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. I used to perform these kinds of shows at the Capital Children’s Museum, and I was impressed by the whole production. There’s no history museum doing a send-up of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It also drove me nuts.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But it was still fun to see how many of my Blackbaud colleagues serve on arts boards, perform at theatres and orchestras, or regularly take their children to their local zoo, museum or aquarium. More than almost any other industry, the arts and cultural industry has the ability to be extremely visually captivating.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. This week, they hosted "Let Them Be Heard: Visitor Participation in the Museum Experience," featuring four presentations on incorporating visitors' content into museums. Here's what they did.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Games often get a bad rap in the museum world. There are thousands of game developers out there creating unusual, beautiful, fascinating games that have changed the way I think about museum exhibits and game/play spaces. Today, two games about navigating non-linear narrative spaces, The Telephone and The Museum of Broken Memories.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

I'm gearing up for some conference talks next month, and one of these is part of a very cool session, Eye on Design, at the Western Museums Association conference. The coordinator asked several folks to pick a design trend from outside the museum world and discuss how they might be applied to museum design. But I rarely do.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Each day my grandchildren were captivated more by Simone’s spirit, care and challenges to their thought process. Here are a few photos of a few of the myriad of fun activities we had from the Welcome Banner to Indy to visiting the Art Museum to Symphony on the Prairie at Conner Prairie to celebrating a birthday!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Museums can’t be viral. So where should sticky live in the museum? But the way the software allows you to drag your viewing window around the map is so fun, so excellent, that the program becomes captivating. I sat here for awhile trying to think of museum experiences I’ve seen that are sticky, not gimmicky.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

Struth takes photographs of museum-goers as they gaze, pick their noses, chat on cell phones, and fidget in front of classically great works of art. What are we looking for in a museum? What do we look for in art museums? I spoke recently to an art museum person who said, “I think there’s an epiphany for everyone in the museum.”

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

I was captivated. They're visually muddled, and even when you do get the information, job titles are often confusing at best; at my museum, the woman who maintains the artifacts is called the "Collections Manager." They have no way to visualize, or even imagine, the people and skills they could be accessing at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2007

In museums, we always assume that everyone wants to get their hands dirty and “do it.” But are there ways to create games in museums that are as exciting to watch as they are to play? In museums, we’re not going to hand out thousands of dollars or vote people off the island. People watch games that have high stakes.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Whether you work at a museum, performing arts center, library, or another type of cultural organization, INTK will work with you to achieve more through professional Google Ad Grants management. In turn, you’ll receive an optimized account filled with ad groups, keywords, and captivating ads.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia). Environmentalists, the Museum of Natural History at CU, they all responded very enthusiastically to this.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Many groups wanted to focus on habitat preservation and threat management, while most scientists had come to believe that removing condors from the wild and breeding them in captivity was the only hope for saving them. Captive breeding at the zoos worked better than anyone could have hoped.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. All artworks delivered to the museum during the submission period will be accepted and presented; no one is turned away.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." I saw It Is What It Is twice at the Hammer Museum. Why would I want to talk about Iraq on a visit to an art museum? Even for me, the barriers were too high.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Was it a museum professional or an outsider? I'm kneedeep in the final run-up to the opening of Operation Spy at the Spy Museum, but in the fleeting moments between disasters and near-disasters, I'm thinking about AAM. Several were created or conceived by a single person, often an artist/non-museum professional.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

The best end-to-end campaign was done by the Museum of Modern Art. Elephants Held Captive. Happy Holidays from the Gibbes Museum! Reminder – Outward Bound Co-presented Screening at The Rubin Museum in NYC – TONIGHT! Gibbes Museum Art of Healing. Gibbes Museum King Street Antique Stroll.

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EveryAction

JULY 18, 2017

Part museum, part-living institute, visit the King Center for a history lesson on where we've come from, and strategize on where we're going. For some reason, the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta's downtown is the only place in the world where you can see whale sharks in captivity. Ebenezer Baptist Church & The King Center.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2007

It was captivating. So give me a painting in an art museum with a video of the artist creating that painting right next to it. I was reminded of this pleasure last night, when I came home to a group of Second Life builders working in our living room. There's a reason that people love this video of Robbie Dingo building a guitar in SL.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2009

The thing that’s captivating about Harry Potter, and Willy Wonka, and Jedi knights, and X-Men, is that they are part of a special, highly exclusive club. of Museum 2.0 And so I wonder if we wouldn’t be better served as designers by accentuating the uniqueness of these creative participants. Think of Harry Potter. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

All this delightful non-fiction makes me wonder: why aren't museums great at telling these same kinds of deep, intense stories? Yes, I know that every platform is different, and that the captive attention we afford to radio, TV, and written material doesn't map perfectly to a free-choice wander through an exhibition.

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