Culture Empowerment Museum People 
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MAY 1, 2023
million people. Read books written by AAPI authors and visit a museum to learn about significant figures in the AAPI community and their contributions. You can even visit virtual museums or look up educational resources online. Try AAPI cuisine AAPI cuisine is like no other cultural cuisine. By that time, there were 1.5
Museum 2.0
MARCH 4, 2015
This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" A black box with people crowded around, talking and sharing and making and doing.
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Museum 2.0
APRIL 17, 2013
When we talk about museums or cultural institutions as vehicles of social and civic change, what does that really mean? And we each have specific interests in increasing access, connection, and empowerment of marginalized people. Museum work is mostly non-contact. We all work for nonprofits.
Museum 2.0
JANUARY 15, 2014
This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
Our goal is to help civic and cultural institutions become more representative OF, co-created BY, and welcoming FOR their diverse communities. Our near-term goal is to enroll at least 200 organizations by the end of 2020, collectively pledging to involve one million new people in their work. Some people are writing toolkits.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 29, 2015
These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. They talked about community building.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 19, 2015
One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? When you say you want to be relevant, that usually means "we want to matter to more people." Or different people. My answer: neither. The market decides what's relevant.
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