Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The museum gets better the more people use it.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts , a top-tier body of select professionals from the “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. The Frist Art Museum. NTI Nuclear Security Index. Gold – Activism for Websites.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 27th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. The Frist Art Museum. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History DIY Exhibits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts , a top-tier body of select professionals from the “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. in an interactive activity to consider challenging questions about race, identity, and economic justice over a meal. Participants?observe?a

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. For example, Pencils of Promise will be hosting, for the first time in two years, its PoP Gala on October 20 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Museum technology nerds: this post is for you. I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) as they make their way through the world outside the museum. At the museum? but none of them are great. Who's tackling them?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) , an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) , an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

Visitor-contributed photos surround a collection piece in Carnegie Museum of Art's Oh Snap! so I was intrigued when I heard about a recent success from Jeffrey Inscho, Web and Digital Media Manager at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. The museum selected and is featuring 13 works recently added to our photography collection.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2010

It drives me nuts that it's being called "groundbreaking" in the realm of human-to-human interactions. Chatroulette exacerbates the perception that stranger interactions are uncomfortable, weird, and often sexual in nature. The interactions are private, which means there's no external social pressure to conform.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. So here is a list of suggestions that hopefully will improve the way your museum thinks about using Twitter. Or it's rainy so you suggest I visit the museum? I am a museum of Native Cultures and Art!"

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. For organizations using both apps and websites, there were challenges in seeing how the data interacts—are web visitors the same people using the app?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2009

In my continuing quest to find elegant ways to integrate technology into the museum experience, we come to interpretative material and the simple question, "How can you create natural ways for visitors to retrieve the information of most interest to them relative to an artifact or exhibit?" Here's one lovely answer: Meta.L.Hyttan.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2009

I spend a lot of time talking to people about social media--how it can be a model for real-life content venue interactions and how it can connect museums and cultural institutions to users in new ways. This is the reason that many museums and cultural organizations decided they needed websites in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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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 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. First, the environment. The interactive experiences in Side Trip are superlative.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2006

has gone on to build other games and tutorials, but their bread and butter is the crafting of honest, successful "interactive conversation interfaces." What's an "interactive conversation interface"? In short, it's a killer interactive. In short, creating a consistent, positive environment for user interaction.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

At our museum, we''ve gotten better at communication up from the front desk to the office. Visitor services staff write synopses of weekend days, notable visitor interactions, and events that help me and others get a sense of what''s going on. participatory museum professional development' Kudos to Sarah for making it happen.

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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. When it comes to content , programs , and interactives (parts 1-3 of the series), the challenge is to push the barrier towards less comfort, not more. Why are museums so darn uncomfortable?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Why aren't children's museums represented on Museum 2.0? stuff naturally.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds. Collaborative Experience.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. It's a small space that features stories of recent and current genocides and encourages visitors to "take action" via an interactive pledge wall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. The scribe should only interact with the lead facilitator, not the group. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2010

Let's say you're a young person eager to break into museums. Over my first year in museums, I worked at five different institutions as an educator, exhibit builder, exhibit cleaner, art model, and whatever else I could find. Now, several years of full-time museum work later, I'm consulting.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2008

I've written before about the power of dogs as social objects to which we can deflect our attention--thereby making peer-to-peer interaction between strangers more socially comfortable. I'd love to see a museum offer temporary tattoos instead of stickers at entry. And thus this gets back to museum comfort in a more global sense.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. By calling ourselves a museum, we respond to those cultural institutions that have separated practice from production, exhibition from process, and work from play.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. But this is not just for The Tech; our grant mandates that this project be a service to the museum community at large. A contractor, Involve Inc.,

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly. A month ago, I invited you to join this project. Now, a month tired-er, I still want to invite you.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries. "Second Life libraries are examples of immersive learning environments ," explained Dr. Hill. Success in Second Life.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I got my copy of the fall issue of Museums and Social Issues this week. The theme is "Civic Dialogue," and the journal includes articles on the historical, cultural, media, and museum practice of getting people talking to each other (including one by me about such endeavors on the web). A place many museums are not.

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