Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways.

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Museum Participatory Interaction Classroom 35

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. I’m always curious when I meet these folks, who are about my age, choosing a different entry path into the museum world. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. Summer's coming to D.C., You were a carpenter.

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Museum Program Student Skills 51

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

It's 8am in the classroom; 5am in my body. A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." A vision is a detailed history of the future. This is a detailed history from the future. WHAT IS A VISION?

History 26

History Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana 26

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. We start each official meeting with introductions.

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Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. If there was a way to engage these deep emotions in the context of science museums, then there is an opportunity to expand our impact. Not that it was sad, but that it was human. It hasn''t.

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Help Museum eBook Project 45