Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. But museums are one-night stand amnesiacs in the relationship department. This is terrible, both for the visitor and for the museum. I expect you'll remember some basic things about me--say, my name. We hang out.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

--Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users. I got thinking about this the other day with regard to museums. Floor staff are limited by time—they can’t possibly interact with all or even most of the people in the museum at any given time.

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Museum Tools Participatory Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ). I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process.

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Reflection Museum Podcast Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 I''ve been thinking recently about how I originally got interested in talking to strangers in museums. I love playing host to friends, but I clam up in big crowds, never go to happy hour, and don''t know how to flirt. blog posts from the past. So I stopped trying.

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Museum Tools Participatory Massachusetts 35

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

On a recent trip to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, I noted a discussion board in the "Nursery" gallery. For the Nursery discussion board, it's other adult visitors to the Children's Museum. Every adults who takes a child to a Children's Museum cares about his or her identity as a caregiver. What's the next step?

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Museum Children Discussion Childhood 41

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Works are chosen and hung throughout the city using a unique venue matching system whereby local businesses, galleries, and organizations select the artworks they want to host. Now, after attending with museum friends from around the country, I'm hooked. Very few wrote in typical museum or even gallery-speak. The prizes?

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Arts Experiment Artist Social 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I've been thinking recently about how I originally got interested in talking to strangers in museums. I love playing host to friends, but I clam up in big crowds, never go to happy hour, and don't know how to flirt. Working in museums as floor staff cracked open the social stranger door for me. It was blue. It was polyester.

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Tools Museum Participatory Massachusetts 34

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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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

There are some parties where hosts go out of their way to welcome guests individually and to introduce them to others via shared interests - making sure Susie the winemaker meets George the restauranteur and so on. Not every cultural experience requires a party host (though they are always useful). Ideas participatory museum.

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Design Museum Social Participatory 34