Museum 2.0
MARCH 4, 2015
This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. and "why?"
Museum 2.0
JUNE 19, 2013
He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. These suffer from an excess of equality.
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Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I find North American museums to be risk-averse. Pioneers of communitario museums.
Museum 2.0
JULY 23, 2014
But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. What do you do?
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. The idea was that people would spin the wheel and start a conversation. design exhibition Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent' The clotheslines were always full.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 3, 2019
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 the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 3, 2010
As many of you know, I've been working for the past year+ on a book about visitor participation in museums, libraries, science centers, and art galleries. The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. Want to buy a book
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