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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

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When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. In the meantime, here are some. THINGS I''M MOST PROUD OF: Making space for distributed leadership.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Eight Other Ways to "Connect with Community"

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We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. The homeless community? Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. Connecting with communities means making conscious decisions that invite in particular people. Pick a specific community (or two).

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Building Community Bridges: A "So What" Behind Social Participation

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A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. Kyle had brought his baby with him.

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Using Social Bridging to Be "For Everyone" in a New Way

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We''ve seen surprising and powerful results--visitors from different backgrounds getting to know each other, homeless people and museum volunteers working together, artists from different worlds building new collaborative projects. Programs that emphasize bringing diverse people together are more popular than those that serve intact groups.

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