Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. There was no specific instruction with the dots.

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Story Participatory Museum History 47

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This project wove together many different participatory threads. It empowered our partners, deeply touched our visitors, and catalyzed real community change. We'd love to see this model evolve and grow. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. You can download it for free right now.

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Issue Childhood Community Create 45

Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. The MAH fundamentally has two jobs: we bring art and history out into our community, and we invite our community in. We want to break out.

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Public Museum Arts History 27

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. We generated nearly 10k data points and hundreds of text-based confessionals that he''s already successfully used to model cooperative behavior and is considering publishing on it. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

What values change in that not so subtle shift between people, things, and the common space shared between them? Over time the movement and arrangement of things trails a layered aesthetic that convey histories and narratives of changing communities passing through this unfolding three-story artwork.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. In the Zingerman's model, visioning is for everyone at all levels of the organization.

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History Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana 26

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Sure, I admire cultural organizations that have a strong mission to change education or diversify access or transform the role of art in everyday life, but I'm an insider. The election season, as well as a recent research study on museum membership, has change my perspective on this.

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Product Build Museum Arts 51

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. So the Community Science Workshop model is to put a drop-in, FREE community science center in a place that is walkable to kids'' lives and schools. We''re not going to do that.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. Tags: participatory museum professional development. I am an impatient person.

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The projects ranged from activating a dead collection to developing a mystery game around a strange artifact to developing a hackerspace to planning for massive changes to institutions new and old. I gave an hour-long talk about participatory design practices ( video here ), and Jim gave a small tour of an exhibition he had organized nearby.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

I'll also be part of two sessions on Tuesday, May 1 - one in the morning about money and business models, and one in the afternoon about prototyping and experimentation. Here's what I'd love to explore at AAM this year: Event-driven models for museums. Participatory history programming. Working with teams through change.

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Conversation Participatory Museum Minneapolis 43

Museum 2.0

JULY 30, 2014

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. The last one was on arts innovation and change , also from Irvine.) We all have business models. We all have missions. We all have leaders.

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Report Malaysia Memphis Museum 52

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

You see them in business models like Airbnb, right? So that’s an extraordinary model and the reason it’s been able to scale so quickly is because of new power. You have housing, markets change, you have rental markets all too and so it’s these models that are able to do that so quickly.

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Social Game Model Fun 22

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

We have to change the framing of this conversation. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum. And while some sites strive for transparency, most find ways to feature the kind of content and behavior that they want to see modeled for other users. and my emphatic response is YES.

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Authoring Platform Museum YouTube 42

Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

2020 will be remembered as the year that changed grantmaking. Grantees painstakingly provide long histories of past performance, financial projections, and thorough descriptions of expected results. Foundations are in the midst of a sudden and unexpected upheaval of long-held grantmaking practices.

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Change Proposal Grant Application 49

Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The theory of change involves both encouraging local economic activity—increasing the economic multiplier effect, in technical parlance—while fostering bonds of community. Given the lack of established models, there will undoubtedly be some unanticipated curves ahead.

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Local Digital Experiment Alternative 101

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important.

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Participatory Design Museum Wiki 26

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. We have to change the framing of this conversation. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum. welcoming people with more diverse perspectives and backgrounds to participate meaningfully).

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44