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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Yes, some people (especially vocal museum staff!) But what about visitors?

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from Lannan Foundation allowed Braided River to donate 10,000 copies of the book to libraries and indigenous communities across the country.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from Lannan Foundation allowed Braided River to donate 10,000 copies of the book to libraries and indigenous communities across the country.

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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. Followers of Museum 2.0 To me, this seems both discouraging and ungenerous to visitors.

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Steal these 42 Creative Pinterest Ideas for Nonprofits

Care2

Now I’m excited to see how cause communities embrace this emerging network to create value and mission impact. Food can offer great visuals and this can be a great community building exercise. Pin useful school-supplies you need with links to Amazon product pages that parents can buy for the school.

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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

Museum 2.0

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.

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