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Exceptional Digital Experiences for Museums and Cultural Institutions

Forum One

Museums are magical places, where history, culture, art, and science seem to come to life. Our work with museums and cultural intuitions goes way beyond websites with easy-to-find visitor information (though that’s important too!) Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Why Your Giving Day is Your Secret Weapon

M+R

Museums can have a hard time soliciting smaller dollar annual gifts tied to mission, rather than a new exhibit, and this is a great place to turn the focus to why donor support matters. Pi Day, celebrating math and science, is the Museum’s signature day of giving.

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Doing Museum Work: Your Thoughts

Museum 2.0

This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums. But this one resonated clearly, as I got 75 retweets and 61 comments. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. And here are a few suggestions from commenters.

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Hello Museum World!

Museum 2.0

Or maybe hello museum world! Previously, I had worked at the same museum for 17 years.) So, when you visit more than 300 museums, parks, and historic sites, what do you learn? This week, I wanted to start with us, museum and cultural workers. Hello World! The metaphor certainly works in terms of filling big shoes.

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Unleashing Museum 2.0

Museum 2.0

In the spirit of this belief, I’ve decided to unleash the Museum 2.0 For that reason, I’m thrilled to announce that over the next two months, I’ll be transferring ownership of Museum 2.0 Seema is a brilliant museum educator, a generous spacemaker, a prolific writer, and a creative troublemaker. I know Museum 2.0

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

Museum 2.0

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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