Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2015

Last week, I sat on the jury for the first Cultural Innovation International Prize given by the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona , and this week, I'm offering a workshop for museum professionals across Poland participating together in a "Museum Lab" in Warsaw. The second post , in which Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Over the years I have developed the ability to communicate those “gut checks” and voice it in a way that can sometimes lead to change. Are their voices being heard? Digital communications and social media are constantly changing environments, and at times you will feel like you’re running through an obstacle course.

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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. All of the instructions are handwritten on paper or cardboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. What do these categories look like outside of the science environment? I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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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. Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. They talked about community building.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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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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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Shero Thought Leaders. Roxane Gay. Anika Rahman. Groups like the Lady Parts Justice , Ms.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Teens are developmentally focused on social identity-building and may feel more compelled to share their voices and express themselves than others than other visitors.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 13, 2007

I finished reading the Museums and Social Issues journal on Civic Discourse, and it's brought up a groundswell of internal debate for me about museums and comfort. How civil does the environment have to be to encourage civic participation? Yes, museums should be safe. When does civil devolve into P.C. Creature comfort.

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St. Louis Museum Journal Game 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

They exploded, speaking all in one voice: "I don't even like ordering food in a restaurant." "I While they had mostly developed performative approaches to the task, by the end, they were more interested in developing listening approaches - for example, constructing a "tell me a story" booth.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I spent an hour this morning "brand listening" to what the online world says about one of my favorite museums, the Exploratorium.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Now we have smartphones, whose data, when strung together forms the story of our lives. I can’t remember when I first heard, our identity is the story we repeat to ourselves. Our Stories. Today we have a wild abundance to the ways we collect our stories. What emerges is a story – your story.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I have to feel like the post is open enough to my experience, that the blogger and the community of that blog would find my voice worthwhile, that I have some strong reaction I want to share, that I won't sound stupid. Museum 2.0's Thank you to the intrepid commenters who have jumped in on this blog and shared your stories.

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Comment Museum Blogger Reflection 20

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. At first, it was a surprise.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Each week, I’ve been ceding the blog to others as a chance to hear many voices share their thoughts about our field, where we are, and where we are going. This field is varied, and each voice adds to our collective understanding of the situation. Andrea has been a leader in the museum technology field.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

Then, he establishes credibility with stories from real kids about the program. They have very little agency, and as long as they are in supportive environments, they are mostly okay with that. It is the internal voice suggesting what they might and might not want to do. First, Doron throws fruit to the crowd. Hanging out.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. If you want visitors to share stories or personal expression in your institution, you need to respect them as individuals who have something of value to contribute. Who is the "me" in the museum experience? Not so at museums.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Last week, we looked at the first section of Visitor Voices , on Talk-backs, and came to the conclusion that comment boards and the like are functionally conversations, and that their design, therefore, should focus on encouraging positive, lively, thoughtful, engaged discussion. It's nice to see visitors and museums switch roles like that.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

On Tuesday, I'll be chairing a session at the AAM (American Association of Museums) conference called Eye on Design: Inspiration from Outside the Museum , in which we will feature creative and intriguing design elements from worlds away from museums--guitar stores, baseball stadiums, and more. One is a garden of forking paths.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2008

Many museums have jumped into the middle level—producing their own content—without starting with commenting. Consider the path of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Jennifer Caleshu, their director of communication, is a museum talker extraordinaire. Both are museum-run forums for visitors to post their own content and opinions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think that it's too bad that our stories are not in the common language of arts and entertainment because I think our stories can be very powerful - the stories of an immigrant family, of a single family, of a family who's organizing, or fighting evictions, a young woman who's questioning her sexuality. I work in multiples.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Why do you care about and or work in museums? This post tells my (weird) story. My story is about radical educational philosophy. I don't work in museums because I love them. When I visit a new city, I don't clamor to visit museums. I don't work in museums because I love them. And check out the comments.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

It does everything a great documentary story can do: it takes you into another world, introduces you to unforgettable people, defies expectations, and delivers tough realities instead of fairy tales. I've been consuming a lot of documentary stories recently, primarily through Longform.org , my new favorite go-to nighttime reading source.

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