Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

When we talk about museums or cultural institutions as vehicles of social and civic change, what does that really mean? Museum work is mostly non-contact. This may sound obvious, but the rhetoric about cultural organizations working in the social sphere often ignores our inherent differences.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. The title may sound innocuous. We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. Our conversation made me reflect on the museums that most inspire me from a public service perspective--institutions with missions that stretch far beyond their walls. These museums work differently.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. What is the appropriate way to evangelize cultural institution use to the unconverted? Help people understand why you do what you do.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2014

Museums, Politics, and Power is a new blog that lives up to its name. Elsewhere in podcast-land, Radiolab did a fascinating piece about cultural appropriation and gate-keeping in hip hop music. Sound familiar? Boston Stories chronicles the radical, human-centered work at the Boston Children''s Museum in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Cultural institutions aren’t always the best at this—we are often all in or all out. Megan Smith incisively covered the sad state of staffing in the museum industry pre-coronavirus, as well as her fears for staffers post-coronavirus, in a previous post for Museum 2.0 , so I won’t belabor this one.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Children are easy to applaud, and easy to ignore. Lots of trust involved Adults serve as listeners, observers and sounding boards (i.e.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

There’s no reason that arts and cultural organizations can’t do the same thing. It sounds creepy, but this is info you can (and should) use. The same is true for your museum. If they dropped their children off at parents-night-out be sure to mention the current promotion on family memberships. You know where they are.

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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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? It was a fabulous date night (check out said caricature), and the next day I was telling all of my friends – with and without children – that they had to visit Thinkery. Genius, Thinkery, genius!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

There are many folks who've written about the problems with "value" membership and have recommended that cultural institutions reorient toward offering "affinity" or "relationship" memberships. Making the switch from value to affinity membership programs can sound risky. Annual pass holders tend to be a high-churn group.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This month we’ve been thinking about “What is a museum?” (I'm I’ve been visiting museums my whole life. Does that make me the best judge of museums? People are the defining characteristics of museums. I’ve worked with and at plenty of museums that can sometimes feel empty. I'm not alone there.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website and app design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of non-profits, cultural institutions, science, health and wellness, and education. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Not only did we make the list one time – we made it eight times with two gold wins for non-profit and cultural institution websites and six silver wins for apps and websites in non-profits, health, families and kids, the environment and sustainability, science, and education.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach. I think, sadly, that we all know the answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? Jenkins from MIT described something called "convergence culture."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. And especially for those kids who know that their job prospects may be shaky, that sounds really good and useful. Before their teen years, children are sponges.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. But today, a conversation about the often sticky world of cultural interpretation with chapter 20, "A Jew Among Indians" How working outside of one's culture works."

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

Their four central points may sound familiar: Stories are universal. They bridge many divides — including cultural, linguistic, and age-related. Right now in Pakistan, that's one of the only ways to get food — so thousands of children are going hungry." "On Stories mirror human thought.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

On Musematic , Holly Witchey has rigorously recorded her recent experience at WebWise, a " IMLS/RLG/OCLC/Getty sponsored conference" on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World that was held March 1-2. Broun talked about SAAM's initiatives both in the museum and on the web to open up their content base for visitors to use in their own ways.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. Now, type in the chat if you know this reference, if you know this pop culture reference. Same with Instagram Stories, just to kind of learn the culture and learn what works and see what you like and what you don’t. Okay, so AI and chatbots. Learn more.

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