Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. This promoted lots of social object behavior, including lots of pointing at art.

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Participatory Museum Arts Artist 46

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

In the last year, I have seen traditional museum attitudes about social media and community co-design go from "why should we care about this?" at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By Two years later, things have changed for the blog--and more importantly, for the museum field.

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? Pointing is a social behavior that works best in physically proximate, real-time situations.

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The Science Buzz blog , which is managed by a team of exhibit developers, science writers, and floor staff at the Science Museum of Minnesota, is a good example of diversified community management that models the inclusion of a range of voices and opinions. This is a valid concern, especially on social sites that are not tightly aggregated.

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Community Management Museum Aggregator 40

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. So, for example, when we were working on a community policing project, I used to work in Minnesota, and about 15 years ago, we had another wave of immigrants, refugees that came from Southeast Asia and different countries from Africa. How do we do this well?

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Community Video Slides Survey 80

Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” Well, we knew we wanted to do an exhibit to mark the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary of the birth of the state of Minnesota).

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Interview Minnesota Museum History 21