Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Dear friends, We're about a month from the deadline to apply for MuseumCamp 2017 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). A month before MuseumCamp, the MAH is opening a new exhibition, Lost Childhoods , co-developed with foster youth, youth advocates, and artists in our community. Sleep in a museum. All optional.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2017

Dear Museum 2.0 friends, I want to share two great opportunities to get involved at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in 2017. Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The lessons I learned from Lost Childhoods are at the heart of the OF/BY/FOR ALL project we're building now. Through Lost Childhoods , we saw youth step into their power. The result was the best exhibition I've had the honor of working on (check out these outcomes ). We saw casual visitors volunteer to become foster parents.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The ASTC (the Association of Science and Technology Centers) annual meeting is coming up in LA (home of my childhood), and Museum 2.0 In a world of increasingly sterile museum environments, the Museum of Jurassic Technology is a beacon of emotion, strangeness, and wonder. And if you want a more traditional Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. And yet in the museum world, we still see interactives as being mostly for kids.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He shares a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

It was designed for learning – almost like an exhibits at any children’s museum in the US. I look forward to seeing how this start up transforms early childhood education in India. There are computers and large monitors in each classroom, Internet access, and of course, the software development. Stay tuned.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

This early childhood program initially serves 400 preschoolers and their families, providing them with up to 40,000 eBooks and learning apps. Museum of Children's Art is an arts program where low-income Oakland families can explore interactive spaces where they create, share and connect with each other through art.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Families like the idea that museum memberships offer a low-cost alternative to recreational activities like the movies, which cost money every time you go. With a membership, you can come to the museum whenever you want--something more visitors may take advantage of as more expensive recreational activities are cut from family budgets.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

" UNICEF used mobile tagging technology to raise awareness of the childhood hunger and raise money. What Value Do Folksonomies Bring To The Online Museum Collection? The campaign. Solutions for Tagging and Archiving a Discussion List. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr. Free Flickr Pro Account Through TechSoup. You're It!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

There's a tag applied to many Museum 2.0 Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. What aspects of that socialness are desirable in museums (and how might we mirror buses or trains to promote them)?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

Recently, I’ve become a little disheartened by the extent to which the web has dominated my—and others’—thinking about ways that museums can integrate 2.0 But today I had an experience that reinvigorated my love for and belief in tangible projects that can fill museums with content that is user-generated, shared, and explored.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

On a recent trip to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, I noted a discussion board in the "Nursery" gallery. She's found great questions from her training in early childhood development, parenting magazines, and the occasional visitor comment that can be translated into a new question. The museum doesn't have to have all the answers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). I'm cautiously optimistic that we may have found a system that works for Lost Childhoods - and may work for other projects as well.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Last month at the AAM conference, a speaker said, "we should all be using measures of quality of life to measure success at our museums." Many museums (mine included) are fairly new to collecting visitor data. When we started more robust data collection at our museum, we wanted a community baseline. I got excited. "We

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Historians can narrate stories of a city’s development or you can tell your own story of fond childhood memories. Recently, overcoming a freak October snowstorm in Washington DC, I went to the National Museum of the American Indian , and then to the National Museum of American History. Zooming in, it’s my dad’s childhood story.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Fund their work! Sheroes in the Arts. Lorraine Hansberry.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2007

At first listen, the book sounded like a childhood favorite of mine, The Eleventh Hour , a lavishly illustrated whodunit riddled with ciphers and a solution in a sealed envelope. Here's the problem I see with museum-based narratives and games: people don't revisit exhibits the way they revisit games. Not so with museums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

How is a museum like a radio station? It’s called Pandora , and its successes reveal interesting lessons about aggregating museum content. And it’s the introduction to new music that makes Pandora uniquely interesting to me as a museum person. Which means that curators still have a powerful role to play in the future of museums.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2007

They received over 4,000 submissions from all 50 states, which were judged by a panel of seven—including museum staff and outside artists. Brandon noted that there were noticeable differences in voting trends between in-museum and web visitors, though the winning piece won in both venues.) 14,000 people voted.

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