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New Approach, Historic Mission: Remaking a Factory Museum via Community Co-Production

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The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. They host public co-making events, invite groups to book workshops directly, engage on twitter and tumblr , and encourage drop-in participation. design inclusion institutional change participatory museum' It''s serious.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

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This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! On 8.8.08, the Ontario Science Center (Toronto, Canada) hosted the 888 YouTube meetup for any and all YouTube aficionados. meetup for Elite Yelp! Me: Me neither.

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The Happy Healthy Social Change Activist: Passion for a Cause without Burnout

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Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. Here’s a quick video.

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

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At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. In the history gallery, we have some blended props and artifacts, and it's rarely clear what is and is not ok to touch. Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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--Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

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Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. Click any link above to see the video from the initial pitch and final report from each group. Facilitator bits.