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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

The core program is a permanent, dedicated physical space, full of interactive hands-on physical exhibits, as well as a tinkering and making space, and recycled materials. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. The first one was in the Mission.

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Quickie Links: Surveys, Transcripts, and a Strange Bedfellow

Museum 2.0

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms?

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

What happens to the surprises designers encountered, the interactive that visitors loved, the bits that never seemed to work quite right? Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? Why is that?

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