Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I'm generalizing grossly here, but for the most part, I find European museums to be conservative. I find North American museums to be risk-averse.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Younger generations have grown up with the ability to individualize almost every experience they have, especially as it relates to accessing services and information. Tips for personalizing the member experience. That research has uncovered three trends we believe can be applied to the association industry. Individualization.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Jasper Visser and his colleagues at the not-yet-physically-open National Historisch Museum of the Netherlands have impressed me with their innovative, thoughtful approach to developing a dynamic national museum. In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Press Here is a "normal" book that uses book-ish tools--pacing, spatial arrangement of images on the page, text as instruction--to break the fourth wall and create an interactive experience. Novak''s book uses the basic structure of reading aloud to subject the reader (presumably an adult) to proclaim ridiculous things about him/herself.

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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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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Their arts and culture funding goes towards artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences. The Shubert Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many people ( Paul Orselli , Linda Norris , Pete Newcurator ) in the museum field have written about the question of museum "tribes"--based partly on Seth Godin's book , partly on the longstanding fan culture that pervades our lives through sport , celebrity, and shared experience of mass events.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Their arts and culture funding goes towards artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences. The Shubert Foundation.

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Arts Grant Culture Fund 73

Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2016

Five years ago, I left the consulting world to take the helm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) at a time of crisis and change. In my first few years, it was all about getting the programming moving, experimenting, and exploring the possibilities with our community. I bridle under too much structure.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. This can include incentive structures, remembering DEI in programming, speakers, professional development, etc. By: Yolanda F.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2018

I was at an informal talk by a visitor research professional from a large American art museum. Just like new audiences, loyal patrons need to be welcomed into institutions full of different people, experiences, and opportunities. When the MAH was changing aggressively, we embraced Elaine Heumann Gurian's idea of "the museum of and."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. COST: Museum books tend to be expensive - because they are printed in small runs, the price for a 400-page paperback can be as high as $40. Why Self-Publish?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Ad creation and keyword research: A Google Grants manager will structure your account properly and create ad campaigns that target valuable keywords. Account management and reporting: A properly-structured Google Grant account will run 3-5 campaigns at once to drive conversions. You’ll be up and running in no time!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

George Scheer is the director and co-founder of Elsewhere Collective, a fascinating "living museum" in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2019

Last week, I talked a bit about the structural issues inherent in our systems and how they may play a part in our access issues. Museums, like all professional fields, are spaces policed by unwritten norms and regulated by our credentialing systems. People might not want an educational experience. Wait, what? Well, not just you.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself? This past Friday, we experimented with a new feedback format at an evening event focused on poetry and book arts. They came to the booth when they wanted to share, and everyone felt good about the sharing experience. We got more feedback.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

Try using this language on your Ways to Give page or planned giving microsite—here’s an example from the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Charitable remainder trusts work similarly to charitable annuities but are structured through trusts that donors establish specifically for giving to one or more charities.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It might record that the user clicked play and then clicked pause after 16 seconds, or that they searched for the hours of a museum, clicked through to the information page, and stayed for 40 seconds. In contrast, the event model records the actions people take, for example clicking or scrolling. How do I get started?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In the first rectangle, I sketched out one version of how our organization could be structured. After an hour, I had 12 different versions of our staff structure, each in its own little box. But among them lay the seeds of our museum’s future. But among them lay the seeds of our museum’s future. But I resisted structure.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, we take our interns seriously, give them real responsibility, creative challenges, and meaningful work opportunities. Second, and highly experimental, is the Museum Camp Internship. And of course, much more to come about Museum Camp in the months to come.) and the cycle continues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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. As someone who has been in the nonprofit field 35 years, I can sum up my experience as: ”Remember, it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” Then we opened up for discussion.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. Here are a few things that I think helped make this experience valuable: We started from communities' needs, not the museum's. For example, one of our groups was focused on commuters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I'm working on a keynote address for next week's Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference in Baltimore. The speech is in memory of Stephen Weil, one of the giants of contemporary American museum thinking--a radical in a bowtie who strove to "make museums matter." What would you add to this list?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

And while we're advertising positions, we've also learned to advertise something else: the experience of what it's like to be an intern at the MAH. I had a bit of a wakeup call about internships last month at an "emerging leaders" lunch event at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference. We might never get there.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We've gotten a little more organized at The Museum of Art & History , and we've now released opportunities for summer internships. These are unpaid part-time and full-time opportunities to help design public programs, develop new uses for the museum, perform visitor research, and pursue unusual projects.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Wandering around, exploring, collecting experiences… sounds like a museum visit to me! I read the (long) article fascinated, wondering if such a resource might exist for museum exhibitions, charting the top 10 exhibitions that use play, or storytelling, or any other core museum design tenet.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. And for those who have, they quickly understand that the Museum has much more to offer than can be absorbed in a day.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2008

I've long been interested in the power of cross-platform experiences, so I was excited to see today's New York Times article about the evolving relationship between books and video games. Reading a book can be an intense and powerful experience, but it is a punctuated moment in time. But the Times missed the boat.

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