Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2007

I’m working on a virtual museum project these days, and one question that often comes up is “What is the most fun thing we could let visitors do here that they can’t do in the real world?” After all, most of our ideas don’t require a virtual landscape; any museum could commission Kid Rock’s tour of the galleries.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

I thought I’d take the examples Joe as a challenge and see how many creative nonprofit Pinterest Board ideas and use-cases I can come up with. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. To pull this off well you'll want to print up some effective signage to orient people to what Pinterest is about and how the museum is using it.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. If I go on a date with you and we have fun, I develop some expectations about what will happen the next time I see you. But museums are one-night stand amnesiacs in the relationship department. We hang out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can also send fun cards using Felt.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). But it's a lot of fun, and it could be a great way to construct a personalized takeaway from a museum experience. Then a number.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers). My model is the shining star. My model is the shining star. Louis were quick to add, 'It's not a museum.'

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? What is it?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 11, 2010

Dear Museum 2.0 People Watching Portraits – customers can choose to either be drawers or models (models will wear a button or badge on the bracelet to indicate interest). They may ask models directly to pose for the in more structured encounters. Here's the challenge: I need to settle on a final name for the cafe.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that hands-on workshop audiences top out around age 14. They are more than just workshop spaces--they are member institutions, like museums. Isn't this one of our dreams for museums?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? What is it?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2009

I've been designing game-like experiences with museums for a long time. I've always believed in prototyping at the simplest level possible, but when it comes to group dynamics we often argue that without a full-size model or the actual space, it's hard to see how people will really interrelate. Pit proved to me that this isn't true.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2008

In the museum world, we often talk about lowering barriers to entry, helping people get through the door. And so today we look at an educational facility (not a museum) that swabs the deck with these barriers. A tutoring center is even more stereotyped than a museum in terms of the public's expectation about who it is "for."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Amazon doesn't let you write reviews for the fun of it. In this post, an exploration of ways that museums can support promoters, convert detractors, and generally energize visitors to share their experience with others. Supporting Promoters Somewhere out there, there are people who love your museum. Maybe a comment card or book.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The essays in this section, on “Expressing and Co-Creating,” present projects in which visitors create exhibition content, contribute to its creation, or get a heavy done of meaning-making in their experience of museum content. Who controls the content in the museum? Who controls the museum experience? First, museum content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. For example, the Field Museum tags itself when posting on Instagram, thus also posting to the Field Museum Location Page : That said, if your nonprofit does not yet have a Location Page, you can create one using Facebook Check-in.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Give away the fun (and easy) part. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And so the report really challenges us to think about five things. Four is considering the level of depth of our DEI practices and challenging ourselves to engage in deeper, more meaningful ways. Again, how many of you have attended an event or go to a museum? And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Pick the Right Model. There are four categories of crowdsourcing -- each of which suggest a particular goal. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique. And, as Stacey Monk points out , these are not without their challenges.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

Radiolab does what I hope all great museum exhibitions can do--take a deep topic and make it compelling on many levels. And then the third thing is, it allows us to challenge these people as though we were ordinary, curious folks. To do this kind of modeling, Robert and Jad actively portray themselves as novices. aggressively.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

In April, I gave 13 UW graduate students a simple challenge: make an exhibit that gets strangers to talk to each other. They reminded me of street vendors or great science museum cart educators, imparting an energy to the space without overwhelming it. This is a good lesson for museum talk-back design.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

The longer I consult with museums and cultural institutions, the more time I spend peering into people's eyes, wondering: do folks here feel able to innovate? Instead, Light defines innovation as "an act that challenges the prevailing wisdom as it creates public value." It can be fun and exciting, but it is rarely an easy place to be.

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