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MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here! Tweet about it.

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MAY 22, 2012

The staff was fired, the digital projects divvied out to other institutions, the plans for the physical museum shelved. The root of my frustration with the book is not that the project never came to fruition. It's that the project, which was pitched as a whole new approach to museum-making, seems inconsistent.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

This small, startup cultural project in Rotterdam works directly and intimately with community members to share their stories. Story House Belvédère in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a magical place. They do so by making the stories of individuals and communities visible, and encouraging new encounters.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Once there was a project to design a national history museum in the Netherlands. The team developed some highly innovative digital projects and approaches to history. Three years later, at the end of 2011, the project was canceled. The book was released just four months after the project was officially canceled.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Jasper Visser and his colleagues at the not-yet-physically-open National Historisch Museum of the Netherlands have impressed me with their innovative, thoughtful approach to developing a dynamic national museum. All these objects and stories together we call our ‘community of objects’.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

There was Jaime Kopke's Denver Community Museum , which existed for nine months in a Denver storefront in 2008-9 to celebrate visitors' creations. This project is beautiful in its simplicity. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). But in general, the project went smoothly.

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