Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. "Where were you last night?" If someone asked you that question, how would you answer?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us. At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. What do you think?

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Denver Nonprofit Institute. Denver Nonprofit Institute. Nonprofit Learning Lab / Denver, CO / $90. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Xperience Design Project. Xperience Design Project. State/Local.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Across the Atlantic in the Netherlands, Jasper Visser has been chronicling some of the truly exciting experiments he and his colleagues have been doing as they develop the national history museum for their country. The posts are infrequent, but where else are you going to learn about history vending machines ? Thinking about Exhibits.

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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. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. They have an open collections policy, and they see media artifacts as objects that connect people--to art, to history, to politics, and to each other.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

I visited a friend last weekend who works at a coffee shop in downtown Santa Cruz, right next to the Museum of Art and History. Why doesn’t the whole Museum of Art and History look and feel like the coffee shop? To address these questions, I sat down with Steve Tokar and Beth Katz, evaluators who deal with design for visitors.

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JUNE 4, 2021

Design trivia questions related to your mission and divide your participants into teams. The Junior Achievement Metro Denver Virtual Trivia Bowl recently hosted this type of event for its supporters. Consider your online donation page design. Make sure you design your page to maximize donations!

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Whole Whale

MARCH 21, 2022

It is important to understand the history of nonprofit organizations in order to see where the future may go. The United Way was founded by religious leaders in 1887 in Denver, originally called the Charity Organizations Society. Were donations to charities always tax-deductible?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. If participatory exhibit design is going to progress as a design methodology, it has to produce outputs that are demonstrably equivalent to or better than exhibits created by traditional methods.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm on the road this week, with speaking gigs in Oslo, Denver, Charlotte, and Roanoke (join the NAMP livestream on Sunday at 9:25am PT here ). This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. It is our turn to make history. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Denver, CO / $525. Nonprofit Learning Lab / Denver, CO / $90. State/Local. Affect Conf / Portland, OR / Less than $200. General / #NI16 / @netimpact.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Summertime concerts at the history museum? For some institutions, like the MCA Denver, attendance is seen as a very poor measure of impact. But for almost all museums (even MCA Denver), attendance is correlated with impact in some way. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When I started at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in May, one of my priorities was redesigning our website. We got incredibly lucky with a fabulous volunteer web designer, Marty Spellerburg , who saw my request for help on this blog and enthusiastically jumped in. MCA Denver ) or single rotating image (like JMKAC ).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

Exhibit designers think of their products as needing no introduction—especially not from some high school volunteer in a blue jacket. Add in-house developer/designer time and you have roughly $2M over three years of development to get interactives live on the floor of the museum. Who’s going to help me get there?

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