Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. After years of community town halls, design, and prototyping, we''re finally starting to build our dream. My engineering training taught me to design through iteration. or all of the above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Classic Buckaroo Balls are decorated with cowboy designs with participants dressed up in flannel or denim. You can auction off experiences like: Dinner and a movie Concert tickets Restaurant or bar gift card Wine or liquor tastings.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 1, 2008

My more complete thoughts and reactions to the AAM (American Association of Museums) conference are forthcoming in a longer post soon. Tags: virtual worlds design professional development. Today, I want to share slide presentations and interviews you might be seeking related to the sessions I chaired this week.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Museum professionals tend to think this is OK because they think of the contributory act as the important part of the participation. Imagine if Netflix encouraged people to rate movies but did not provide customized recommendations based on their ratings. These kiosks are frequently designed to make contribution as easy as possible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Design them free on Canva. This can include museums, archives, galleries, etc.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2010

Today, a pause button on standard Museum 2.0 I wonder what design elements best allow us to abandon ourselves to adoration and self-denial. Is it at the movies, in the dark secret of the soft seats? Is it at the movies, in the dark secret of the soft seats? The refusal of real-life distraction.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members. Maybe I'm not following the rules!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

9) Movie screenings. Virtual tours can be surprisingly pleasurable and rejuvenating while not having to travel anywhere — just let a tour guide show you around a museum, ancient site, city, or gallery while live streaming to a group of people. 15) Brand design contests. 13) Scavenger hunts. 16) Hybrid costume party.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

This year, one of the keynotes at the Interactive festival was delivered by Will Wright, legendary game designer who created Sim City, the Sims, and now, the forthcoming Spore. Movie: What’s going to happen next. When I read this speech, I wonder, where do museum experiences fit in? Games: Can I accomplish this?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2008

Why don't people come back to museums? Why do we go to the same restaurants again and again, but not the same movies? When I worked at the Spy Museum, many visitors expressed a lack of desire to return not because the experience was dissatisfying, but because they'd experienced the whole story. Consider, for example, narrative.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 3, 2007

The morning after I wrote the post on questions as a basis for exhibit design, I bolted up in embarrasment. The staff brought in Darcie and artist Michael Brown to help them create "An experiment that provokes questions about art and its presentation in museums." Why is it in an art museum?" Give me the surf movie of exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2007

Heck, sign me up for a ticket to the zombie museum. But when I took off my “entertainment” glasses and put on my museum eyes, my reaction wasn’t amusement. I imagined museum folks reading the article and snapping the paper closed with smug smiles on their faces: "See. It was distaste. This is why we have to avoid Disneyfication."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

As we designed virtual CSI:NY, the constant mantra was to address the “What do I do now?” Operation Spy, the narrative immersion experience at the International Spy Museum, does the same thing. There are many Second Life and museum purists who bristle at these kinds of projects. why push them into a didactic mode of interaction?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

1) Infographics [re-designed] In the 2010s, infographics created by nonprofits were consistently the most engaged, posted, shared, and retweeted content on social media, but around 2018, the infographic craze came to an abrupt halt. Over the last year, Nonprofit Tech for Good has observed that many old school a.k.a.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Ian comments: Very few video games set out to tackle mundane applications akin to the home movie or the airplane safety video. I was struck, reading these articles about games, by the idea that introducing games, or comics, into the museum experience does not necessarily imply dumbing down or funning up the experience.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

There's a game design source I used extensively at the beginning of development for Operation Spy: Gamasutra. If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy? Where am I?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. They took regular classes, museum-specific classes, and had internship-style museum jobs.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The irritating design? into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. The bizarre obsession with "adding" friends?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

The way most game designers deal with this is by using the concept of starter knowledge as a hook, not a real part of the game. But what if you are in an educational setting, like a museum? This was a huge challenge in designing Operation Spy , a live action narrative immersion game at the Spy Museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The interview includes stories about some of his projects, and a delving into questions about what makes viral content compelling, how to draw people into an uncomfortable environment, and ways that art--or museum content--can become more pervasive by being hidden in the corners of life. And really it’s just designed to meet the centerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted. Is it complex or simple?

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Working with land, they bring people together to design and practice strategies for healing, health and reparative economics. ?. TV Shows + Movies: The 13th (Documentary) . Moonlight (Movie). Mudbound (Movie). Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. The Death and Life of Marsha P.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. And earlier last month, the Museum of Television and Radio announced a name change to the Paley Center for Media. The word Museum is not powerful enough, alone, to attract or repel visitors.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2007

I’m working on a game design project now that involves an interesting experiment: a blend of real-time and on-demand gaming. When real-time games have a long duration (weeks or months), the game designers should be thinking about the ways people can drop in and out (unless they want to restrict the game to the most hardcore players alone).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I've been thinking recently about the "why" behind encouraging social interactions among strangers in museums. After all, people visit museums in their own pods for a reason. There are two ways I think we can be using this in museums. First, I think we should support the proliferation of museum-based "I saw you's."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. As Elaine puts it in the essay, When I was last involved in such an endeavor, it was when the Boston Children's Museum was small, insignificant, and unselfconscious. have portrayed Indians inaccurately."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2007

As part of the article I’m working on for the journal Museums and Social Issues on using web 2.0 to promote civic discourse in museums, I’m developing an argument about the “hierarchy of social participation.” Voting, whether for American Idol, national elections, or museum kiosk surveys, falls in this category. Watch a video.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

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. You can even center your questions around your specific mission or choose a theme like Pop Culture or Movie Trivia. Movie night – Invite your supporters to a fun movie night.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Today, we take a page from Wallace Stevens and look at some alternative ways to structure museum admissions and pricing. What if visitors could stream into the museum, with the expectation that at some point they would encounter a staff member who could facilitate the purchase of admission? Get rid of the admissions desk.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2008

At any given time, do you know: how many visitors are in your museum? how many members are in your museum? Shockingly, for many museums, large and small, the answer to these questions is no. The store and the museum entrance are strangers. In Macy's or at the movie theater, I'm just a credit card.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. There are different ways you can design this project, but this is a very simple approach that you can build on later.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. Known as micro-volunteers, these individuals offer one or two hours a week to complete “Challenges” in the areas of technology, design, research, etc. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Viddy :: viddy.com. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 3, 2008

Two examples, both from science museums. More than that, I’m a museum person—I KNOW they wouldn’t put real animals—dead or alive—behind a curtain and say “grab here”. Then again, I'd argue that few museums do that--at least not intentionally. I love scary movies, but I never watch them at the theater.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. He said, “My God, I want to give you $450,000 to help you expand the program, and I’m going to produce a movie about this.”

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