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. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Flickr's Commons project - Flickr is offering up its powerful community tools for museum photo collections. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens.

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Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) We developed and prototyped everything in-house with staff and interns. We spent a long time prototyping this one.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." Bringing in Global Voices Does your collection come from far-reaching lands?

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20