Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. They were both commissioned by organizations whose purpose is to support museums and libraries. Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. Adam and I first met in 2008, when we were part of a National Academies think tank-ish thing on the future of museums and libraries. Museums shouldn’t change by lookingelsewhere; they should change by looking more carefully at themselves.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

This is a big change for me--professionally and personally--and I'm thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to take on this position in the city I call home. There are three reasons that I am absolutely ecstatic about this change. Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I have some exciting news. OK, now on to the interesting part.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

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. I used to think museums and libraries should be third places, but this book opened my eyes to how far they are from being so. Longer hours.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2016

It's packed with practical theories, rags-to-relevance case studies, and inspiring stories from museums and libraries, theaters and parks, dance companies and orchestras, afterschool programs and activists, churches and synagogues. My last book, The Participatory Museum , did well. and then do a little bit more.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. If you're doing something special and participatory, for goodness sakes, let me know. You want to get some projects going, but you're not in any particular position of power. Where do you start?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

What do you do when you encounter a really great and unusual idea, one that you could implement but would require you to change some aspect of what you are currently doing? I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. Do you jump in or do you shelve it?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2008

I'm writing this quick post to share some ideas and changes to this blog in the year ahead. The focus will be on developing your wildest dreams as they relate to museums, libraries, etc. The book will be about applying community and participatory design principles to museums, and I'm going to try to complete it by summer of 2009.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! how do you set clear criteria for participation when the project is experimental and ever-changing? You can view and download all the slides here.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

How do you overcome institutional resistance to change and uncertainty to do something wild and hopeful? Assessment tools like the Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills report can help you couch both your goals and evaluation in contexts that are well-understood by funders and executives alike. It takes six steps.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This might mean cutting thousands of papers various sizes, wheeling hundreds of library books through downtown, dumpster diving for cardboard boxes and driving up to the mountains to move a 200lb letterpress to the MAH. Read the surveys and make active and immediate changes based upon their feedback.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Two years later, things have changed for the blog--and more importantly, for the museum field. Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. In other words, there's a lot going on. There is funding.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Participating in this made me wonder: could a museum or library run a project like 3six5? Could your institution make the change?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). The Catalyst for Change social impact study from the Glasgow Open Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. I'm nervous. the work of copyright holders.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I might change that position slightly. Museums are quality learning spaces, but so are libraries. Museum house things, but so do libraries. Museums are colonial constructs, Wendy Ng points out, [and] debating the definition does not change this fact.” I suspect if you are reading this, you might be in a similar boat.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers: Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change Are you intrigued by infographics and how they could improve your communication strategy?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

This is a participatory comment board in a true sense. The Nursery is changing, and Yvonne is using questions like "What's your favorite book on parenting?" to figure out what resources to stock in the Nursery's library in its next iteration. They want to do a good job of it; it's part of the reason they came.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Image via State Library of Queensland (an institution I love). I think about the commitments I made to myself, to it, and to you--and how those changed over time. The response to this blog changed my life. I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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