Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Megan Smith incisively covered the sad state of staffing in the museum industry pre-coronavirus, as well as her fears for staffers post-coronavirus, in a previous post for Museum 2.0 , so I won’t belabor this one. It’s been informative to see the range of museum responses to a world in which people cannot physically visit our campuses.

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Museum Digital Internet Professional 29

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

But it's not so easy to integrate into larger-scale museum writing. And if you try to write this way without sincerity, it will sound as flat as other text. Have you ever walked someone, a non-museum professional, through an exhibition you have or are working on? Storytelling is a dying craft worth revitalizing.

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Museum Model Voice Storytelling 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Most games grant players a certain amount of starter skill. More interesting to me is the phenomenon of granting players some “starter knowledge”—for example, expertise as an archaelogist. But what if you are in an educational setting, like a museum? Most museum labels assume the visitor starts with little or no knowledge.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Others are looking at no demand at all, and with it, no revenue, because their mission involved gathering large groups of people in places like theaters, galleries, and museums. So, you would think that the most pressing skill to build is in revenue generation, like fundraising , government grants, or fee-for-service programs.

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Skills Professional Philadelphia University 98

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It sounded great, until her last comment: She told me that it was a really important program, because libraries are the heart of the community…well, in elementary schools at least. Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. Who’s the community? Libraries & Community.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2007

You've probably heard of the Creation Museum , opening tomorrow near Cincinatti. The Creation Museum is itself a creation of the Answers in Genesis ministry, and has the most unique museum mission statements I've ever seen. The reviewer makes it sound like a fairy tale: pleasant to explore without concern for reality.

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