Remove Children Remove History Remove Museum Remove Test
article thumbnail

Gender Differences in Participation: The Pocket Museum Example

Museum 2.0

This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience.

Museum 47
article thumbnail

Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history. Learning Science by Design.

Game 140
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

MuseumCamp 2014: Experiments in Social Impact Assessment

Museum 2.0

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. People x (Food + Place) looked at photos taken by children in a park to understand what contributed to their sense of community.

article thumbnail

Yes, Audience Participation Can Have Significant Value

Museum 2.0

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

article thumbnail

Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s. Scientists design the test questions, steer the data collection, and analyze the results. I’ve added one more category to the mix called hosted.

Model 98
article thumbnail

WWHKD? (What would Helen Keller do?)

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

The Perkins History Museum has an impressive collection on the history of education for people who are blind and deafblind. However, they are also planning to create an online museum and archive that will be fully accessible to all.

article thumbnail

Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

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.

Game 52