Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Build a membership program specifically for children. If you can manage two to four activities per year, you’ve provided some value to the parents and involved children at an early age. Can’t think of any?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. They walk dogs at your animal shelter, ask for donations on your behalf, and spend their Saturday afternoons tutoring students. Students make great volunteers! However, some people do.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2010

Last week, I took in the new Galileo science show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. I used to perform these kinds of shows at the Capital Children’s Museum, and I was impressed by the whole production. Does making science fun really require turning scientists into clowns? It also drove me nuts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

But I think it fits the graduating class of American Humanics (AH) students, all 18 of them. The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011. Okay, okay — I stole this slogan from the U.S. Marine Corps. So, sue me!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. It should not surprise the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. game and the Neversink Valley Museum's capital campaign launch materials.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly. A month ago, I invited you to join this project. Now, a month tired-er, I still want to invite you.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

NFTs might put the “fun” in Nonfungible, but they come with plenty of significant challenges as well. Recently, Save the Children partnered with NFDoge, a platform that sells “Non-Fungible Doge” artwork. Fun fundraising with gamers. Not all fun and games. Recruitment. Find streamers where they are. What’s Dark Mode?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. Offer something fun and appealing to do that required entering the exhibition? I hope more museums do things like this.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. with sharpies.

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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. Last month, student Nicole Robert wrote about the concept for Advice: Give it, Get it, Flip it, Fuck it. The exhibit experienced low traffic overall in an odd area of the UW student center.

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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? It can be fun and exciting, but it is rarely an easy place to be. Is this a place where staff members are comfortable taking risks?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2007

It's the most direct reason I ended up working in museums. Over three years, I taught 12 sections of 30 students each--hundreds of people who had chosen to study some form of engineering. It's as if in English class you only taught grammar and spelling without letting students read great books as well. Why the soliloquy?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. Betty and six of her high school English students founded an organization called the Girl Child Network. In order to get a book published, I was told I had to have a museum exhibit.

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