Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 15, 2009
Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 20, 2009
I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.
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Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 20, 2009
While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. But what about visitors?
Tech Soup
MARCH 12, 2015
Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. Dd is also testing low cost drones that locals can use and repair to perform aerial photography and surveying.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 16, 2008
They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. Usually, the institution wants to maintain some control--whether over where the content comes from or how it is selected and organized. What is Click? The internal team is led by a non-curator.
Museum 2.0
JULY 1, 2011
But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. OK, so we made up the last couple of those prohibitions.
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