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. There is no dissonance between the museum’s formal voice and laminate and the visitors’ pens and paper. We’re all together, man.

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Denver Museum Arts Remix 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." By simplifying and personalizing the design technique used for the institutional voice, visitors felt like they were part of a natural conversation with the institution.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

This was particularly directed at MN150, which featured visitor-nominated milestones of Minnesota history, and Children of the Lodz Ghetto, which invites users to conduct original research on the path taken by thousands of children during the Holocaust. Tags: professional development. you can do a lot with a storefront.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

I’m not suggesting that live facilitators replace interactive exhibit development entirely, but I think we’ve been closing our ears to visitor voices about their value for too long. Why aren’t there such staff members in art or history museums? Tags: interactives. Who’s going to help me get there?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2007

The interesting thing about progressive people is that they are very interested in getting all voices to the table, they are comfortable with nuance, and they understand the complexity of issues, and that is a wonderful platform for governance. We have a subgroup on LinkedIn called Rockwood that alumni have tagged themselves.

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