Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

Or how Felton Thomas fought the library union to make the Cleveland Public Library matter more. When I wrote my first book, The Participatory Museum , I released it concurrently as a paperback and free online. Take five minutes and learn how the Science Museum in London created better experiences for deaf visitors.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. As you add more interactive or participatory elements to your space, I invite you to balance a variety of feelings.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

Then bow your head and say a silent "tak" (that's "thank you" in Danish) to the creators of the Living Library. What is the Living Library? According to their website : The Living Library works exactly like a normal library – readers come and borrow a 'book' for a limited period of time.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

However, once children learn how to read it is crucial to sustain their interest by cultivating a reading habit and while the aim was to provide a book in every child’s hand and a library in every neighbourhood we found that there was a dire shortage of high-quality, low-cost children’s books.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. They were both commissioned by organizations whose purpose is to support museums and libraries. Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. I used to think museums and libraries should be third places, but this book opened my eyes to how far they are from being so.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

They suggested: For an exhibition of religious art, inviting monks or representatives of different religions to serve as a kind of "Human Library," offering their differing perspectives on the artworks. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.)

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Offering free workshops open to the public on participatory museum practice in Wellington (Nov 26), Christchurch (Nov 27), and Auckland (Dec 14). Leading internal workshops with Te Papa (Nov 25), the Powerhouse Museum (Dec 8-9) the State Library of Queensland (Dec 10-11), and the Auckland War Memorial Museum (Dec 15).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2016

It's packed with practical theories, rags-to-relevance case studies, and inspiring stories from museums and libraries, theaters and parks, dance companies and orchestras, afterschool programs and activists, churches and synagogues. My last book, The Participatory Museum , did well. I am truly thrilled to share this book with you.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. If you're doing something special and participatory, for goodness sakes, let me know. You want to get some projects going, but you're not in any particular position of power. Where do you start?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. Adam and I first met in 2008, when we were part of a National Academies think tank-ish thing on the future of museums and libraries. This whole debate made me think about Adam Lerner , the Director and Chief Animator of the MCA Denver.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. I also believe that small and mid-sized museums are the leaders when it comes to innovation, particularly around participatory engagement.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 20, 2007

The renovation of an old community center to serve as a library and discussion place should help in this effort. In an email, Caitlin shared the survey results with me and pointed out a group of questions that revealed the low level of health knowledge and information among Sikoro residents.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity. If kids were checking out art supplies from the library. But the diverse world of sports has done an extremely good job of preserving the top levels of play.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. The question is, "would you recommend this book to someone?"

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. Glasgow Life oversees libraries, museums, arts events, music venues, sporting events and fields, and community services on behalf of the City of Glasgow. They care about visitor comfort. They deliver learning experiences at many levels, engaging many senses.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Pop up libraries, performance spaces, and seating areas. creative placemaking design participatory museum public space social bridging' The projects were messy, unfinished--true prototypes of future possibilities. A fitness trail for urban life. A soundtrack for the street. A urinal that watered plants.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2008

The focus will be on developing your wildest dreams as they relate to museums, libraries, etc. The book will be about applying community and participatory design principles to museums, and I'm going to try to complete it by summer of 2009. The chief difference is that they know what a book is.)

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?” I don't think so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge. innovator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Earlier this month, I participated in a social media library giveaway organized by Steve Cunningham , who like me, loves books. For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. and externally (with all of your fine readers!). .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I strongly recommend you read her whole blog back to the beginning (it's not too onerous) and check out the evolution of her experimental format, which she has deployed in museums, libraries, and classrooms in the US and Australia. Here's how it works: Michelle partners with an organization, institution, or group.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Assessment tools like the Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills report can help you couch both your goals and evaluation in contexts that are well-understood by funders and executives alike. There are several good resources on evaluating participation.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I think it's a good thing that librarything gives me a way to talk to strangers about books that feels safer than approaching the drooling guy at the public library. It almost seems quaint to imagine that until very recently, library books listed names of actual people who had actually read the book.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

Whereas Netflix bases its recommendations on ratings, Librarything bases its recommendations on the books you have in your library (read why here). Tags: personalization participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. The Unsuggester is based on different values than Netflix's Movies You'll Love and the BookSuggester.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Participating in this made me wonder: could a museum or library run a project like 3six5?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

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. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. In other words, there's a lot going on.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This might mean cutting thousands of papers various sizes, wheeling hundreds of library books through downtown, dumpster diving for cardboard boxes and driving up to the mountains to move a 200lb letterpress to the MAH. Buy, gather, and prep all the materials you can. Set up their tables and materials for them before they arrive.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). The evaluation of the first Turkish Living Library , held in 2007 at the Rock for Peace festival in Istanbul.

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