Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I'm generalizing grossly here, but for the most part, I find European museums to be conservative. I find North American museums to be risk-averse.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Colleges are addressing greater cultural and racial understanding in various courses.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2014

She would bring books especially for children and women, and conduct a couple of days of workshops on wide-ranging topics about enterprise, culture, history, poetry and books. She''s very proud of her country, and thinks that her fellow Moroccans need to know more about their culture and history.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2008

During my time in Sydney, I spent a day with meeting with the staff at the Powerhouse Museum and Seb Chan who writes the Museum's blog, Fresh + New(er) and who I have had many virtual conversations with via our blogs but have not met face-to-face. and have an informal workshop with members of the marketing staff and curators.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. How are Workshop locations selected?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Scene: a regional workshop on arts engagement. One, from a museum director. The word "quality" is often code for aesthetic quality, as judged by a specific set of cultural expectations and preferences. Heck, no museum exhibition hits them all. Core Museum 2.0 Ideas cultural competency design' Any questions?

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Partner with your local museums to offer virtual tours to your donors, complete with fun, educational facts and some behind-the-scenes action. Virtual college + career prep workshop.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I''ve given talks and workshops about it all over the world. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world. and "why?" to "how?".

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. Change Organizational Culture. By: Yolanda F. Johnson, Founder of WOC, Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Community science workshops. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Skill-sharing free schools.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. In it, I argued that museums could give up control of the visitor experience while still maintaining (a new kind of) power. Museums could make the platforms for those experiences. Traditionally, museums and cultural organizations offer programs.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? My career first got moving at a brilliant example of the customer-centered museum: the International Spy Museum. Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. They care about visitor comfort.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. EMPSFM is one of a handful of museums worldwide for which the death of the King of Pop is a very big deal. Are museums only relevant when they can serve our most pressing needs?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. 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.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp. I've learned a lot from attending and teaching workshops this year. And it's not just for museum people. While we will tour some of the MAH’s participatory programs and exhibitions, this bootcamp is not museum-centric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference “ Forging A Stronger Future Together &# in Atlanta. Silo Busting: Ironically, I had two people in the workshop who worked for the same organization, but had not met each other!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2015

Trendswatch 2015 , the annual forecasting report from the Center for the Future of Museums , is now available! So when AAM and Blackbaud hosted Trends Watch 2015: Using Open Data and Personalization at Museums with Elizabeth Merritt , Michael Edson , and Stephen Watson , attending it was a definite no-brainer!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Three of them are being hosted at my museum , and one at a mystery location. You Can't Do That in Museums Camp - July 10-12, 2013. In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

George Scheer is the director and co-founder of Elsewhere Collective, a fascinating "living museum" in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Silver – Virtual & Remote Experiences, Arts & Culture. Pacific Science Center.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Silver – Virtual & Remote Experiences, Arts & Culture. Pacific Science Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Different culture has different understanding of philanthropy and we use different words to represent various aspects of the concept. In most cultures, philanthropy existed a long time ago. One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum. I was there as a new trainer.

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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. The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. Some are giving workshops. Some people are writing toolkits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. The Portland Arts and Culture Social Media Convening Workshop. The Portland Arts and Culture Social Media Convening Workshop. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. Now Friday nights at the museum have become something people can count on, and they keep growing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. I said: In many ways, the ability to successfully set a powerful and useful expectation for museum experiences is MORE valuable than the ability to extend said experience. Reader, I was wrong.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2015

Last week, I sat on the jury for the first Cultural Innovation International Prize given by the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona , and this week, I'm offering a workshop for museum professionals across Poland participating together in a "Museum Lab" in Warsaw. The second post , in which Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

The museum was in huge financial trouble. I'd spent years leading workshops around the world as a consultant. My expertise was on inviting strangers to participate in public settings like museums. Creating event-specific rules can level the playing field, make the implicit explicit, and create a specific culture for the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This week''s guest post is written by Julie Bowen, VP of Experience and Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. But it would never work in my museum because my boss would never go for it.”

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. By calling ourselves a museum, we respond to those cultural institutions that have separated practice from production, exhibition from process, and work from play.

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