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Does Your Museum Need its Own Social Network? Case Study and Discussion

Museum 2.0

Particularly for children's museums, protecting users in a museum-controlled space is a premium. For example, consider Tree of Promise , a private social network created and managed by the Indianapolis Children's Museum. It is an integral part of a new permanent exhibition, The Power of Children. Some reasons include.

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Mixing Digital and Physical: The Holocaust Museum's Handwritten Pledge Wall

Museum 2.0

I recently visited the Power of Children exhibition at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, which also features a pledge activity at a large installation called the Tree of Promise. The handwritten pledge is an intelligent starting point for creating merged digital/analog participatory experiences.

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