Museum 2.0
MAY 9, 2012
Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. Kathleen McLean led a terrific session called "Dangerous Ridiculous" about risk-taking in museums. Interestingly, at my museum, our team is naturally better at ridiculous than we are at dangerous. I found this idea really powerful.
Museum 2.0
MAY 18, 2011
Jason Beaubien was reporting on the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, the gleaming new art museum built as a "gift to Mexico" by the world's richest man, Carlos Slim. The news report , strangely, focused on the question of whether the Soumaya Museum is a rich man's indulgence or a truly "worthy" cultural institution.
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Museum 2.0
AUGUST 9, 2011
Two weeks ago, we inaugurated a Creativity Lounge on the third floor of our museum. The same day we opened the Creativity Lounge, we opened new exhibitions throughout the building, including a paper collage show in the 3rd floor lobby by local artist Lisa Hochstein. Lisa was thrilled that her work was on display at the museum.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 1, 2009
On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. COSI is a hands-on science center in Columbus, Ohio. David, COSI’s CEO, really trusts his staff to engage appropriately in the social Web in ways that support and add value to the museum.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 15, 2010
This guest post was written by Kimberlee Kiehl, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy & Operations Officer for the COSI science center in Columbus, OH. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 note: I've written about innovation at COSI before here.) Facebook discussion board here.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 21, 2006
Shortly after starting the poem-a-day project, I became more aware of the extent to which a vast majority of the internet is about this concept—exposing processes, opening up the innards. How can museums learn from it? Where do museums fit in? What’s appealing about this, and what’s prurient?
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