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Improving Family Exhibitions by Co-Creating with Children

Museum 2.0

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. For one year, a group of twelve schoolchildren age 9-11 were invited to work with staff at the Wallace Collection to develop a family-focused exhibition using the museum's artifacts. it's a Secret! , What made Shh. it's a Secret!

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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Quick Hit: Five Great Links

Museum 2.0

Museums, Politics, and Power is a new blog that lives up to its name. Finally, if you need a hit of inspiration and historical museum-making, I strongly recommend checking out the Boston Stories project. Boston Stories chronicles the radical, human-centered work at the Boston Children''s Museum in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

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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. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away. I’ve added one more category to the mix called hosted.

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10 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Examples of numbered lists include, “Five Reasons Why Conserving Wildlife is Important,” “Ten Simple Ways to Serve Your Local Community,” “Nine Powerful Stats about Domestic Violence in America,” and “Six Reasons Why You Should Read to Your Children.” Or an arts organization could write about the top 10 museums to visit in a lifetime.

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Ancient Greece 2.0: Arts Participation before the Industrial Age

Museum 2.0

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. Museums no longer showed human horns alongside historic documents; theaters made differentiations among types of live entertainment. I can't wait.

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[VIDEO] Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing

Bloomerang

And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. Boston Children’s Hospital, learn more about us. And not just museums jumped into that, it was a lot of different organizations. Maybe it’s a PDF download. I am a former development and marketing director. Learn more. What are you happy about?