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Coming to Your Town, The Art of Relevance in Hand

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Paul, MN at the Minnesota History Center, 8-10am - Free! But here's a quick list of the conferences, public events and workshops where I'll be appearing in the next few months. I'd love to meet you there. PUBLIC EVENTS TO WHICH ALL ARE INVITED September 28, 2016: St.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

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The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.

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Leading the Participant

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Last month, the radio show This American Life ran a fascinating episode called " Kid Politics ," which starts with a long segment about the Air Force One Discovery Center immersive experience at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. You will make history. Lives are at stake. The responsibility is entirely yours.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

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I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

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Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images.

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Two Years Later

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at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. In other words, there's a lot going on.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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This was particularly directed at MN150, which featured visitor-nominated milestones of Minnesota history, and Children of the Lodz Ghetto, which invites users to conduct original research on the path taken by thousands of children during the Holocaust. You can view and download all the slides here.

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