Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

This woman is killing it when it comes to developing in-gallery interactive experiences around permanent collections. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. History and science museums. time to step it up.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored.

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Museum Work Social Media History 21

Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." It requires trading a certain history for an uncertain future--a nerve-wracking prospect no matter the situation. Fabulous!" "But This is incredibly scary.

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Forum One

JUNE 6, 2024

Think like a musician Those who have played music in a band or orchestra or sang in a choir understand the profound impact of an engaged and participatory audience. Design Strategies for Long-Term Trust One powerful strategy is to create immersive and interactive experiences that invite participation and collaboration.

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Design Create Storytelling Music 46

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." The image at the top of this post is from one of their simple visitor feedback interactives which was built into a familiar, casual rolodex. A lone "What do you think?"

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

With that in mind, I turned the question of “who is a museum” to the people, here and on my social platforms, even my personal ones. For many people museums are purveyors of and intercessors with history. A 24/7 resource always top of mind.” I’ve worked with and at plenty of museums that can sometimes feel empty.

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Museum Place Life Ohio 36

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. It is our turn to make history. General / #NI16 / @netimpact.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

We have a show coming up right now about synthetic biology, where engineers are building life forms that are new to existence, new to the history of life. They articulate the basic questions and knee-jerk reactions in our own minds, carrying us deep into the content from a common starting place. And they're doing it quite.

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Conversation Arts Museum Voice 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. One of his students reflected: Using the interactive iPad book to test my own reliability in crime scenes and investigations was really powerful. Not that it was sad, but that it was human.

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