Model Museum Story Storytelling 
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 1, 2014
Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. How and why did Object Stories come to be?
Museum 2.0
MAY 3, 2011
Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.
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Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 8, 2014
How does this question play out in museums? At the 2013 American Alliance of Museums annual conference, a group of exhibition designers explored authenticity in a session called Is it Real? They explored a huge range of museum objects and grey areas of "realness." They arbitrated replicas, reproductions, models, and props.
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 13, 2007
The story of Peter Pan is well-known, but it's just as unique for its tone as its content. But it's not so easy to integrate into larger-scale museum writing. The key is not to write the story/label/instructions. Have you ever walked someone, a non-museum professional, through an exhibition you have or are working on?
Museum 2.0
JUNE 10, 2008
What if witty cultural commentators reviewed museums the way they do music and restaurants? If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from movies to museums? If Stephen Colbert "reported" on museums at times other than during the TV writer's strike? It's painful. And instructive. And revelatory. And painful.
Have Fun - Do Good
MAY 16, 2012
Meg is a writer, speaker, storyteller and a certified Holistic Health Coach. And it’s a sweet life to have been able to turn service into a supportive business model. Also, I am a writer, storyteller, and part time editor of other people’s novels. Story is incredibly important to me. And incredibly fun.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
Seth told a story about men's shavers that illustrated his key point about innovation: Innovation isn't always about the product, it's about the marketing and communications around the product. There's no better example than the public dashboards of the Indiana Art Museum - Innovation is about opening up and letting the outside in.
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