Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things. And the facilitator wants his friends and family to have a good time.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2010

While it hasn't happened here in awhile, a new Museum 2.0 Many museum and library professionals use the concept of the third place to describe the idealized vision of a cultural institution as a place for community use and civic engagement. For four weeks starting June 1, each Tuesday there will be a Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0 Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. Leave a comment with a url! It isn??????t A List of Examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The authors were kind enough to give me a copy to give away on this blog, so if you leave a comment you could be the lucky winner of a book! I met Mazarine Treyz 3 years ago in Portland, Oregon when I facilitated a one-day social media and nonprofit workshop for the Meyer Memorial Trust. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. the way the best museums do. Does this mean Khan Academy is competitive with museums? She would be the best science center educator ever.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see. Instead, they've been driven by community members who see the museum as a platform for their own creative pursuits.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2012

This is a picture of the largest temporary exhibition gallery in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This winter, my museum is trying an experiment called Work in Progress. This winter, my museum is trying an experiment called Work in Progress. How do we facilitate visitor experiences in these spaces?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

One of the best personal brands that I’ve seen on Instagram from a nonprofit leader is Thomas P Campbell the CEO of the Metropolitan Museum. This shot is a painting at a museum visited during a professional conference for museums. You will see photos of Met art works as well as art in other museums. Visibility.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Thank you to Susan Spero and all the folks at JFKU and Left Coast Press for starting a highly stimulating conversation this weekend at the colloquium on Museums and Civic Discourse. There were, as we say in the museum business, some good aha moments. What role should museums play in promoting discourse?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2007

I was talking recently to David Klevan, Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Initiatives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (say that three times fast), about some of their awesome experiments with online discussion groups, blogs, and 2.0 In a six month period ending last month, 655 comments were submitted to this boa rd.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. But museums are one-night stand amnesiacs in the relationship department. This is terrible, both for the visitor and for the museum. I expect you'll remember some basic things about me--say, my name.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Nikki created "The Ministry of Rules" --a shadow organization that existed for one week during half-term break, staffed by visitors who served as "Inspectors" investigating, exploring, and poking fun at the rules that make museums and galleries go. How did the museum staff respond to this experience? How did this project come about?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Please add your own ideas in the comments too. For example, when we held community meetings about the development of a new creative town square next to our museum, a group of middle/upper-class moms talked about not feeling safe downtown. Now how the heck do you do it? SELECTING AND RECRUITING THE PARTICIPANTS 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. We’d love for you to have a look at our results and join the discussion.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This week''s guest post is written by Julie Bowen, VP of Experience and Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. The comment that brought me up short was “This was great.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation. Pocket Museums in bathrooms.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Visitors in front of the African Elephant Diorama at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC photo) This guest post was written by Karen Wise, Vice President, Education and Exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “I Familiarity may breed contempt in some contexts, but apparently not in museums.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. And for those who have, they quickly understand that the Museum has much more to offer than can be absorbed in a day.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. First, if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, please enjoy (and comment on, if you wish), this explanation (requires speakers). A month ago, I invited you to join this project.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. This is the only post written by me, Nina Simon.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. Citizen science programs. On the website?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 7, 2015

I''m entrenched in a project to build a creative town square in Santa Cruz connected to my museum. When we lose the public space that facilitates it--active sidewalks and thoroughfares--we lose the simplicity of anonymous collisions. My museum''s mission is to "ignite shared experiences and unexpected connections." And loved it.

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JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

But I couldn''t fully imagine how a museum or an arts center could embody it. While "final" versions of these prototypes would need to stand alone on the sidewalk, the best prototypes are facilitated. Facilitation has a dual function: the artists learn what worked and didn''t, and visitors learn what the projects are all about.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

That said, I sympathize with the challenges involved in designing something like this--challenges we faced again and again when I was working on the Operation Spy immersive experience at the International Spy Museum. Could 5th graders handle a truly open simulation? Maybe, maybe not.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. Any big museum has barriers and limitations to full community ownership. Really interesting.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2009

culture might affect museums. The true story is that I desperately wanted to find a way to engage in discussions with some of my museum heroes. Kathy McLean is one of my heroes who motivated the start of Museum 2.0, I have learned so much from her work as an exhibition designer, audience advocate, and facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

The use of podcasting has many implementations for museums. For starters, podcasting can liberate art lovers from the museum's clunky audio sets and enjoy the Museum's "Official Audio" more stylist piece of equipment. It can also liberate museum goers from hearing one view - that of the expert or curator.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. I think so.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Between the giant squid brainstorming and experimentation, I gave a talk to the larger Smithsonian Institution about multi-platform museum experiences. The slides are also available for download.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. Volunteers are the backbone of any nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts. Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

Why discuss gifting on Museum 2.0? One of my greatest interests is the "p articipatory museum," in which there is substantive, unfacilitated visitor-to-visitor interaction. When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. Ideas participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If you have had a change to play with Jumo and have some insights, please share in the comments. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. and “On Sunday, are you most likely to be: at brunch, at church, at a museum, or watching the big game?&# What is Jumo?

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