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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

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From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. In 2003, writer George Scheer inherited his grandmother's thrift store and decided to turn it into an artists' center and museum.

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Introducing Abbott Square Part 3: Community Participation Builds a Community Plaza

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This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Here are three significant ways community participation influenced our project. What amenities does it need?

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Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

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Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. 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." "Where were you last night?"

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

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For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I spent an hour this morning "brand listening" to what the online world says about one of my favorite museums, the Exploratorium.

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Talking Through Objects 2: The Rollercoaster Conundrum

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Sure, it's social, but people stick to their own "pods"--families, teens, adults--and don't diverge or merge. Out on the boardwalk, or at the zoo or a museum, there's a common experience of the sights, sounds, smells, activities of the place. Ideas participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences visitors.

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Mall Science: Lessons in Consumer Appeal

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A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. They took regular classes, museum-specific classes, and had internship-style museum jobs.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Invest in organizations like Women Made Gallery , American Women Artists , the Professional Organization for Women in the Arts , WGAW , and the National Museum of Women in the Arts which help give a voice and a future to female artists worldwide. Are you inspired by women in the arts? Shero Thought Leaders. Roxane Gay. Petra Herrera.

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