Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

Those are places that build community. Or rather, those are places with the potential to build community. But what if we designed public space for community? These are the questions on my mind as I start working more intently on an outdoor plaza project. Collaborations with unorthodox community partners.

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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 First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. And so, in this post, a few findings, and more questions. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. This isn't true for every museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

An exhibiting artist approached me recently at an evening event at the museum. But it's a question that many museums seem to address inadequately. But it's a question that many museums seem to address inadequately. Evening events provide rare opportunities to experience the museum after work. He's right.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

It’s the person who answers your question about zoom or the person who passes on their work at home policy. The last ten years saw our work move toward the service sector as rentals become a very real part of our business model. Maybe that’s not the question for today though. And that’s a form of guidance. Let the tough days be.

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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. Me: Have you ever been to this museum?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans. Where would you start?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. We co-created it from start to finish with community partners. It empowered our partners, deeply touched our visitors, and catalyzed real community change.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

With unemployment and cutback, for many a trip to the art museum can appear to be a luxury. Allison suggests in her post that there is definitely a business model problem. Allison says the loss of arts organizations will create enormous, possibly permanent loss of social capital for local communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

Lynda Kelley I'm here in Sydney, Australia and just finished an informal workshop and discussion with Powerhouse Museum staff and other museums. Will post reflections shortly) I met Dr. Lynda Kelly, a blogger and the Head of Audience Research for the Australia Museum. The site is called Museum 3.0.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

That's the question we've been grappling with as we start the OF/BY/FOR ALL initiative. Our goal is to help civic and cultural institutions become more representative OF, co-created BY, and welcoming FOR their diverse communities. We've see this model succeed at the MAH and at other community-centered organizations around the world.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

You run a regional museum. Now, you have a new vision--co-created with trustees and community leaders--for a path forward. This is the plan that plunged the Berkshire Museum into hot water. Rockwell donated those paintings himself to the Berkshire Museum to be enjoyed in his home community. How will you pay for it?

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Creating change in this world depends on the contributions and commitment of entire communities, and everyone who joins a movement matters. The questions we need to ask go beyond the immediate revenue numbers. Let’s go back to the core questions we started with. What is the speed of upgrade? What is their lifetime value?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. I will start with an overview of the ” Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly: Maturity of Practice Model ” for networked nonprofits.

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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

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Trying to do everything, a scarcity model, is such an exhausting way to work. In a follow up post, Marnie answers her own question or rather begins to noodle on it. It might be about stitching together the lessons and impacts of various projects to talk about a whole issue or present a picture of an entire community.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea is that you specify your values, relationships, and assets, and then match those up with potentially fruitful legal structures, financing models, and growth potential.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? It thrives.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let's say your organization has a mission to increase X (art, healthy kids, clean water, community cohesiveness, etc.). The more my organization has become focused on community engagement, the more we've balanced being experience producers with being experience co-creators/facilitators. I feel great about this approach.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, a CRM designed specifically for museums might emphasize their ticketing features, whereas a CRM for general nonprofits might have some registration tools but lack a built-in ticketing component. Specialization To differentiate themselves, providers often specialize in particular industries and corresponding features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. In order to answer the annual questions that were developed in the plan, we compiled ALL the evaluation stuff we collect over the year and put it in one place for synthesis. It is the same dashboard that the Board of Directors receives.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2017

This is the eighth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. I knew it would change the museum visitor experience. I brought the community visioning and planning process. They heard the pitch.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

At a recent talk, a colleague from the Exploratorium asked me a very simple question. How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I didn't quite know how to answer this question.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I'm working on a keynote address for next week's Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference in Baltimore. The speech is in memory of Stephen Weil, one of the giants of contemporary American museum thinking--a radical in a bowtie who strove to "make museums matter." What would you add to this list?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2009

I spend a lot of time talking to people about social media--how it can be a model for real-life content venue interactions and how it can connect museums and cultural institutions to users in new ways. This is an honest and valid question. But my organization is functioning just fine without it. Here's why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. Model the Model. Don’t say you have notimetotweet. Lean on Your Staff. Use “Fill In” Time.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

This isn't just a rhetorical question. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. I would add a fourth model, tentatively called co-option. What does the word "participatory" mean to you?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Constrain the input, free the output. Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

In turn, I suggested that we have a conversation with the nonprofit technology community with Holly Ross at NTEN as host. Holly started with a great question, "What's in the DNA of each of these orgs that allows them to embrace this change and experiment?" Seth quickly reached out to me via Roxy Allen suggested that I do an interview.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? Their website includes a clear, concise "What Can I Do?" But I'm highly suspicious of most of these.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. While questions like: "Where were you last night?,"

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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.

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