Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Author: Seema Rao This month, inspired by the panel at Western Museums Association , we've been discussing all things audience, community, and visitors. I asked the somewhat provocative question: Can museums go TOO far with audience engagement/ being visitor-centered? The museum wanted to engage more black families.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2014

Five years ago, I wrote a post arguing that museum photo policies should be as open as possible. I believe that the ability to take photographs (no flash) in a museum greatly increases many people''s abilities to personalize, memorialize, and enjoy the experience. How many museums? Some people can sketch in museums.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. You can auction off experiences like: Dinner and a movie Concert tickets Restaurant or bar gift card Wine or liquor tastings. Movie Nights. Before the movie starts, kick off the night with some bidding. Superhero Night.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. There''s an apocryphal story about a college campus where they started with no concrete paths, and then eventually laid paths where students'' shoes were causing wear in the grass.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

He focused mostly on his impression of the role of story in games, comparing the impact of film to that of games. Some choice quotes: Stories tend to be unchanging, very linear, whereas games tend to be open ended. The circuit in our brain that makes stories appealing to us is empathy. Movie: What’s going to happen next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Start an exploratory project to open a small, probably struggling, museum? Forget your grand dreams and try to weave awesome strangeness into your regular museum job? It involves an exotic museum bedfellow, the suburban real estate developer. It also has an unusual founding story. In Denver there's another way.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

When writing The Art of Relevance , I knew I wanted to share a bit of his story and the ways artists negotiate the relevance of their own work. In the nonprofit arts, administrators maintain a polite silence about the reality that certain artworks, plays, composers, and stories fall in and out of favor at different times.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Museum professionals tend to think this is OK because they think of the contributory act as the important part of the participation. nothing happens.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

With unemployment and cutback, for many a trip to the art museum can appear to be a luxury. The article includes a link to a google map where you can look at the economic impact in each state. In response, arts organizations are cutting staff, trimming budgets, canceling shows, shortening seasons or closing their doors.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Their stories also highlight how important having the right technology is to accomplishing this important work. Organize bird walks.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2008

Why don't people come back to museums? Why do we go to the same restaurants again and again, but not the same movies? Except in cases where the content is deeply loved, most people don't repeat experiences with the same story. Under all of these excuses is one not-so-informative reason: "I don't want to." Lesson 1: Be adored?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. No matter what outlet you think might suit your target audience best, here are two tips that can help you work with the media to recruit volunteers: Pitch a story.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2016

Imagine you are considering going out to see a movie. You feel confident you’ll enjoy that movie. But if the movie is not showing nearby (high effort), or the reviews you read are conflicting and full of muddled information (negative cognitive effect), you’re stuck. You start seeking relevant information. You buy a ticket.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. This can include the history of the organization, testimonials, ways to access important documents or files held by the nonprofit, stories of impact, personalized swag, and a welcome letter, or more.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. Can you give an example, or tell a story so that if someone saw it, they'd say, "Oh! That business really caught on, and it produced support for the museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2007

Heck, sign me up for a ticket to the zombie museum. But when I took off my “entertainment” glasses and put on my museum eyes, my reaction wasn’t amusement. I imagined museum folks reading the article and snapping the paper closed with smug smiles on their faces: "See. It was distaste. This is why we have to avoid Disneyfication."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Ian comments: Very few video games set out to tackle mundane applications akin to the home movie or the airplane safety video. I was struck, reading these articles about games, by the idea that introducing games, or comics, into the museum experience does not necessarily imply dumbing down or funning up the experience.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy? The unifying story is espionage, and the game-like question: “Do you have what it takes to be a spy?” I eat dots and avoid monsters."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

9) Movie screenings. Virtual tours can be surprisingly pleasurable and rejuvenating while not having to travel anywhere — just let a tour guide show you around a museum, ancient site, city, or gallery while live streaming to a group of people. Viewing films at home has been popularized by services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. Structure the space with a clear story (and commensurate rules).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

In this post, an exploration of ways that museums can support promoters, convert detractors, and generally energize visitors to share their experience with others. Supporting Promoters Somewhere out there, there are people who love your museum. Ratings and Reviews Imagine a visitor who leaves your museum enthused about her experience.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

This is a great way to tell the story of your organization: how have these honorees upheld your mission and supported the work that you’re doing? Here’s a look at the Faurschou Foundation’s Virtual Tour of their Museum in Brooklyn, NY: [link]. Virtual Movie Night. Set up a virtual movie night with Netflix Party !

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The interview includes stories about some of his projects, and a delving into questions about what makes viral content compelling, how to draw people into an uncomfortable environment, and ways that art--or museum content--can become more pervasive by being hidden in the corners of life. What do you think has made you successful?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

While artists will love a new set of paintbrushes or acrylic paint, offer a unique experience like a tour of the local art museum for those who simply love the craft. Bookworms will love the opportunity to find a new favorite story they can read on the go. Fill this basket with popcorn and classic movie snacks.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

TV Shows + Movies: The 13th (Documentary) . Moonlight (Movie). Mudbound (Movie). Various series on the National Museum for African American History and Culture Website —Explore African American history through digital activities on the Smithsonian Learning Lab platform. The Death and Life of Marsha P.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Nonprofits are familiar with writing blog posts that provide program updates, tell success stories, comment on breaking news and current affairs, and promote calls to action. The rise of mobile and social media has profoundly altered how journalists frame and format their stories, and the same is true for nonprofit bloggers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. volunteers?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I've been thinking recently about the "why" behind encouraging social interactions among strangers in museums. After all, people visit museums in their own pods for a reason. There are two ways I think we can be using this in museums. First, I think we should support the proliferation of museum-based "I saw you's."

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. Tell a story. You’d be surprised how few fundraisers when they’re talking with donors tell really good stories.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2007

TV has certainly been successful spinning out stories in real-time, whereas books and movies offer a more on-demand experience. And yet, particularly for games with strong narrative, real-time gaming can add complexity that makes the game feel more personal, more real. Where do you cast your vote? How do you want to play?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. As Elaine puts it in the essay, When I was last involved in such an endeavor, it was when the Boston Children's Museum was small, insignificant, and unselfconscious. have portrayed Indians inaccurately."

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