Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. As important as excellence is, shared success is equally important in this field. Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

(not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. He will respond to comments here and can also be reached on his blog (where this post first appeared). After concluding the interaction, some people would encourage others to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience. Each of the speakers had their photo on black and white silk screen in the area outside the main room and participants could leave you notes and comments. This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Furthermore, how can museums and communities work together to share strengths in the community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The core program is a permanent, dedicated physical space, full of interactive hands-on physical exhibits, as well as a tinkering and making space, and recycled materials. For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

Instead of writing a post and soliciting comments (my typical approach), I used an online polling tool to create a simple game where you could read short provocations about questionable revenue sources and give each source an ethical thumbs-up or down. but it taught me even more about online interaction. 20 people commented on it.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

Instead, we are sharing them as slides ( original and annotated ) that not only conveys what we’ve found but also serves as a tool for sharing and discussing the conclusions with others. The traditional form for these type of findings would be a whitepaper.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Please share yours in the comments. I keep visitor comments in my office. It's just fun.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity. and I hope you share them in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

And, as she recognizes, putting these skills in everyday practice is uncomfortable — it is a different way of interacting than a command-and-control style She tells leaders she advises: “If your palms aren’t sweaty and your stomach isn’t churning, then you probably aren’t practicing engaged leadership.”

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. The sheet gave people a lightweight tool to use in social interaction, to trade and share stamps.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. In this guest post, Jeffrey shares the story behind their big hit with a visitor co-created exhibition. is a project that lets real-world and virtual visitors share their work in our gallery. At its core, Oh Snap!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. They're simple --you can comment on any given chapter, or you can write a review of the whole book. Only one person has added a comment to a chapter (thank you, Juline Chevalier!),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. And yet we’ve learned somethings about human interaction in the last few decades. “ “With social software, there are no foolproof recipes for success.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We wanted to share with people, in as clear and transparent a format as possible, our approach to developing exhibitions. If you are working with us as an artist or contributor to an exhibition, you should expect that museum staff will create multi-modal, interdisciplinary, participatory, immersive, and social experiences around your work.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The year is ending, and I have three exciting opportunities to share with you if you are an exhibition-oriented individual, or someone with an interest in the indoor side of creative placemaking. What opportunities might that open up for participatory and community projects that evolve over time in the space? Join our team.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

At level two, the visitor has some interactive experience (pushing buttons, etc.) At level four, the visitor has some awareness of how other distinct visitors respond to the issue and can access their comments and opinions. I wanted more than just a fun interactive—I wanted to understand the other people in the room.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Visitor services staff write synopses of weekend days, notable visitor interactions, and events that help me and others get a sense of what''s going on. People use it to share surprises in the archives, inspiring meetings with artists, dead birds in the lobby, and free food in the fridge. Would people feel pressured to post and follow?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. People are showing up, getting involved, and sharing their enthusiasm in droves. I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. As Learning Director Emma Bryant commented, "The exhibition is much more subtle than I think we would have done if we had done it by ourselves for children." and the interactives that connected to the objects smart and appealing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. My colleague Djamila Ricciardi and I shared our concepts for the various components of the studio. Who are all of these people? What inspires them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. The Third C: Community.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. Beck will be checking in to respond to your comments and questions here. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.)

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. There was no agenda or angle in setting up the DCM, the idea was simply to create an awesome place for the community to share their stories. By far the most important elements though were the stories people shared. The response was amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

Lisa emailed me to ask us to remove the puzzle, commenting: It seems to me that there's a fine line between something that is inviting versus something that is distracting, and for me this falls into the latter category. That includes exhibitions, but it is not limited to them. This is a version of what I call "the petting zoo problem."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." I don't know - and I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments. Fabulous!" "But So what's the solution? I employ the parallel strategy all the time in my work.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. I firmly believe that a community-engaged museum is a web of interactions. How do we share our bifurcated story as both a place to engage with art and history AND a place that builds community?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons. I encourage you to share your own rules and thoughts on this in the comments. Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

I participated in a mini-observational study of one interactive sculpture in the festival. We found that 12% of passersby even stopped to glance at the piece (let alone interact) over a 15 minute interval. If you are reading this via email and would like to share a comment or question, you can join the conversation here.

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