Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other. Trust and love from our old friends.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums. The best children's and science museums are deeply community-interrelated, often in ways that are hard to discern from the exhibits when experiencing them casually.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. Like my friend Gautam John , I’ve been an advocate and donor to Creative Commons. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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License Participatory Culture India 93

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

After her husband’s sudden death in 1955, and with three children to raise, my grandmother grew the store, purchasing the ends of fabric bolts and ribbons from local mills, secondhand clothing, toys, dishwares, books, and an assortment of knickknacks to sell. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

The Odditoreum is a temporary gallery for the summer school holiday in which the Powerhouse is displaying eighteen very odd objects alongside fanciful (and fictitious) labels written by children's book author Shaun Tan, schoolchildren, and visitors. The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question.

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Museum Alternative Portland Artist 22

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors.

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Museum Photo Policy Open 54

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

social networking model to the real world, the implications of tracking, publishing, and spreading become obvious. Children's museums are the exception; staff are on the watch for unaccompanied adults and kids alike. I once worked in a children's museum once where all the floor staff wore blue vests.

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

As I process the many sessions I attended and the new connections that were made, three key trends stick out: interconnectedness, evidence driven hope, and new funding models. New funding models: spotlight on participatory grantmaking. Interconnectedness. This theme was a throughline in myriad ways. Moving forward.

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Philanthropy Trend Participatory Europe 116

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

The whole exhibit modeled the potential for someone to respond to your query, and as it grew, the sense that you would be responded to and validated grew as well. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. The exhibit experienced low traffic overall in an odd area of the UW student center.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Within the report, explore the five principles these strategies follow. Implement Grantmaking Approaches That Democratize Power.

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Intergenerational Culture Accessibility Global 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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Participatory Design Museum Wiki 26

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

It is crucial that LAMs be considered public civic spaces, but Oldenburg's model leaves a lot to be desired. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. And John Cotton Dana's department store model is an interesting one. In the 1930s, W.E.

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Place Discussion Library Museum 30