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Guest Post: A Tale of Two University Museums

Museum 2.0

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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Museum Skunkworks: Carving Out a Place for Risk-Taking

Museum 2.0

I once asked Elaine Gurian how museums can change. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. Where's the opportunity for risk in museums that are too big to avoid the media microscope? There's more attention these days on the "from the top" model.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. They just finished a YouTube video contest.

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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. " She continues: "Lots of publishing companies have had to go with a nonprofit business model. Environmental Impact. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5

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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. " She continues: "Lots of publishing companies have had to go with a nonprofit business model. Environmental Impact. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this. It also focused the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. So how do we propose to pay for it? Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. The media here IS the service. And some background reading.