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Navigation by Recommendation: Lessons Learned from a Little Experiment

Museum 2.0

I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. But the activity itself WAS compelling, because of the fun conversations, unusual recommendations, and evocative photos. Do you interrogate the map? Get deliciously lost?

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Happy New Year! Two Free Books! And Watermelon!

Museum 2.0

I published The Participatory Museum in March (with help from many of you!) Fascinating and fun to stretch out from museums for a bit. This year's video tells the story of The Participatory Museum 's sequel and exposes some deadly secrets we uncovered this year in the worlds' museums (Denmark! Dear Museum 2.0 and at ArtPrize.

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