Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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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Experiment Lesson Learning Museum 44

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

Don't get me wrong, there are extremely sad and depressing stories in here, but mostly it is a book that shares Cheadle and Prendergast's, "Two Paths Out of Apathy," inspiring citizen activist success stories, and tools and information to help you take action. Cheadle's stories reveal the reality of being a celebrity activist.

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Darfur Hints Press United States 40

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. Welcome packet.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 330

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2006

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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Game Museum Flash Captivate 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Other contributors were collegial and a valuable network of museum wonks has developed." What did they do?

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2007

She was telling me the story of how she ended up in Santa Cruz. At this point in the story, like most reasonable people, I stared. At first listen, the book sounded like a childhood favorite of mine, The Eleventh Hour , a lavishly illustrated whodunit riddled with ciphers and a solution in a sealed envelope. Not so with museums.

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