Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I'm just home from a whirlwind of speaking engagements--Oslo, Denver, Charlotte, Roanoke. It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. How can we make museum objects more like dogs?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Frist Art Museum. The Frist Art Museum is a destination for art, culture, and community in the heart of Nashville, TN. Forum One designed and developed the City Health Dashboard with NYU Langone Health’s Department of Population Health to share and compare data on 37 measures of public health across more than 500 U.S.

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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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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We are both excited and proud to see that Forum One has been awarded in nine categories for our work in website, video and mobile application development and design. The site offers an intuitive and high-performing experience across devices, with a smooth ticketing process and user-centered design. AARP Livability Index.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

We are both excited and proud to see that Forum One has been awarded in nine categories for our work in website, video and mobile application development and design. The site offers an intuitive and high-performing experience across devices, with a smooth ticketing process and user-centered design. AARP Livability Index.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It is an incredible museum experience. The visitor is given a copy of her poster and the museum keeps a copy as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. When anyone asks me who's doing great work blending online and onsite experiences in museums, I send them to Beck Tench at the Museum of Life and Science. The Museum of the Future.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

After more than 13 years working with nonprofit and cultural institutions, like the Denver Botanic Gardens , our firm has seen that these problems are epidemic. The big problem is that most nonprofit web design projects are considered a one-time expense, instead of a long-term investment. Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0 On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. That's why I asked.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. The most reliable question I'm using works in art museums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, I was honored to chair a fabulous panel on empowering museum staff to take creative risks ( slides here ). Beck beautifully described her entry into museum work. What kind of support do you need to be confident about taking a risk in your work?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

How do you help visitors know what they can and cannot do in your museum? Most museums have this figured out: they have signs, they have guards, they have cases over the objects. And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2012

The folks at the AAM Center for the Future of Museums have been experimenting with sharing ideas in several ways over the past couple of years--through their blog , their weekly newsletter , and a series of research reports. Each article includes museum examples along with a broader look at the trend.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2008

In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s four part series on comfort in museums, we get down to the basics: creature comfort. So for this last piece, we look at going the other way: making museums more physically comfortable. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. There was funky music.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2008

I'll be speaking at the end of the month at the AAM meeting in Denver, chairing sessions on virtual worlds (Tuesday 9am) and design inspirations from outside the museum field (Tuesday 10:30am). Each year at the Game Developer's Conference, these three share the most interesting gleanings from a year of game design research.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

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. In 2003, writer George Scheer inherited his grandmother's thrift store and decided to turn it into an artists' center and museum. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

Many of the talks are related to The Participatory Museum and I will have books for sale on all of these forays. Here's the list for the next two months: April 14-17 - Denver for Museums and the Web conference. I'm giving a workshop on design techniques for encouraging user participation (sorry, it's full). May 17 - NYC.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2009

In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

We tried this at the Denver Art Museum last week, and it is incredibly challenging—you can’t just put out a box of chocolates and expect people to talk. Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. I will aggregate the results for later discussion on the blog.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Last month, the Christian Science Monitor published an article entitled, "Museums' new mantra: Connect with community." It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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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 ). I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Summertime concerts at the history museum? Outdoor movies at the art museum? If a kid gets dragged to a museum with their parents, do they count?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

Even with these criteria, however, the dashboard concept is used to describe a diverse range of data collection, each distinct in function and design from the next. The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s dashboard is an oft-cited example. Note from Beth: Check out this case study about The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Dashboard).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

Live facilitation has a varied role in museums. In children’s and science museums, explainers are everywhere. From a financial and management perspective, however, many museums try to minimize live facilitation as much as possible. Many peoples’ most memorable museum experiences come from interactions with staff.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Find out what this type of fundraising event looks like in action with the Junior Achievement Metro Denver Virtual Trivia Bowl. You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

A museum can be friendly, or serious, or funny, while maintaining a traditional relationship with visitors as consumers of experiences. Community galleries look old-fashioned because citizen curators aspire to emulate the most traditional vision of a museum possible. But it's far more typical to focus on just one.

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