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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 early participatory projects are terrific. Where would you start?

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Upcoming Museum 2.0 Book Club: Blueprint

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Once there was a project to design a national history museum in the Netherlands. The team developed some highly innovative digital projects and approaches to history. While not wholly explored, that question reverberates throughout a new book, Blueprint , that shares the plans for the Dutch Museum of National History.

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

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Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. Always start and end with something creative.

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Guest Post by Jasper Visser: Storytelling for Social Cohesion at Story House Belvédère

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Story House Belvédère in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a magical place. The neighborhood is a mix of people and communities by design and has a rich social history. They focused on one of the key events in Rotterdam history: the bombing of the city at the beginning of the Second World War.