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Blueprint Book Club Part 1: How Do You Create a Future-Thinking History Museum?

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Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans. Where would you start?

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Data in the Museum: Experimenting on People or Improving Their Experience?

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Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray museums as Big Brother, aggressively tracking visitors'' actions and interests across their visit. I thought this sounded great: better data, useful research. We''re trying to personalize.

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Hack Your Hellos: the Unofficial Way to Meet Someone New at AAM This Year

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It''s also incredibly frustrating--especially if you are new to a field or if networking sounds like a creepy, painful experience. I''m getting ready for the American Alliance of Museums conference later this month. Hint: you can do this even if you are not going to the conference.) So many session titles sound alike.

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Navigation by Recommendation: Lessons Learned from a Little Experiment

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How do you find your way around a multi-faceted museum? 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. Do you interrogate the map? Create a plan for yourself? Get deliciously lost? This is the holy grail for me.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

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For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Hint: It’s the XYY Soup Kitchen.” This can include museums, archives, galleries, etc.

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Game Friday: The Beauty of Finding Things Out

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Games often get a bad rap in the museum world. There are thousands of game developers out there creating unusual, beautiful, fascinating games that have changed the way I think about museum exhibits and game/play spaces. Today, two games about navigating non-linear narrative spaces, The Telephone and The Museum of Broken Memories.

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Preservation in Action: Ambition and Excitement at Zealandia

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And yet earlier in the week, at the Zealandia nature sanctuary in Wellington, I’d seen some hints of how to do just that. There are interpretative trails and helpful staff to aid visitors in tuning in to the bird sounds and identifying the native animals now thriving in the preserve.

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