Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. We saw Race Through Time as an opportunity to share our mission around engaging with history with a new and highly desirable audience of young professionals.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Whoever your community is, they decide. Can you define the community to whom you want to be relevant? The community decides what is relevant to them. Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? Then, we define the needs and assets of that community.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Community science workshops. In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues.

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. meetup for Elite Yelp! Before they held the Yelp!

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Museum Hosting Model Community 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. I crave community, but I am not naturally outgoing in large group settings like conferences. To me, Museum 2.0

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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. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

Both attract locals and tourists who may travel out of their way for the thrill of collecting another place or experience. For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Flake, and the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, prompted survivors to share experiences online about why they haven’t spoken out about their own histories of abuse, assault or rape, using the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport. What’s really helped me, however, is finding community and support. The bravery of the women who confronted Sen.

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Resource Tips Childhood Teen 81

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

You need stories that show the impact your organization makes in the community. Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Contact local civic clubs and churches and see if you can get on their program schedule during the holidays.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

We should identify a few key community health indicators to focus on." Here are three reasons to find and connect with community-wide sources of data instead of doing it yourself: The data already exists. Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless?

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Local Data Learning Childhood 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. And it really came because I tend to be pissed off and I was pissed off that people were talking about community and inclusion but there was no evidence in their structure for it. Everyone was talking about community.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

--Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. Here's a photo of one of the retired couples who came with their family to celebrate her 80th birthday in the exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. Management was horrified.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

She's going to school, you know, she's been able to go home on five day passes to visit her family, and she had come from a history of abuse, too, within the home. Because through the police department, they have units that work with the community. prostitution teen Oakland

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. Local politics are personal, accessible.

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