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Take a Side Trip to the Denver Art Museum

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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. As your hands move through the records, the music changes to whatever record you are currently checking out.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Relationships can grow as families bond over a Family Art Day experience or friends can work together to create their own shoebox guitar at Santa Cruz Music 3 rd Friday or strangers can collaborate by participating in a cardboard tube orchestra.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon: Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

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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. Tags: guest blogging participatory. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0

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Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

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 struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice.

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Why Your Museum Needs a Bar

Museum 2.0

The journal includes articles about two thriving adult science programs, one at the Dana Centre at the London Science Museum, the other Cafe Scientifique , at a pub in Denver. Yes, bars have always featured live music, comedy, and spoken word. But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content.

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Eight Other Ways to "Connect with Community"

Museum 2.0

There were thousands of people in the park for plays, free music, and beautiful scenery. The Denver Community Museum was an entire institution in a little storefront. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. And none of the museums in the park was open. The "community" doesn't have to leave their block to get there.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Denver, CO / $525. 12/13/2016.