Museum 2.0
MAY 22, 2012
Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans. Where would you start?
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 22, 2010
I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. When anyone asks me who's doing great work blending online and onsite experiences in museums, I send them to Beck Tench at the Museum of Life and Science. The Museum of the Future.
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Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 7, 2017
I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future. Story House Belvédère in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a magical place. I visited Story House Belvédère as part of the new Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museum Projects I am involved in. The place surpassed them.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. Followers of Museum 2.0 To me, this seems both discouraging and ungenerous to visitors.
Museum 2.0
JULY 6, 2011
In the Netherlands, State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra slashed 200 million euros from the national budget for the arts, leading to the close of the innovative National History Museum project and crippling many superbly inventive and inspiring organizations like Mediamatic and the Waag Society. Well, they only cost me $8 apiece.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 6, 2012
This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. How is the exhibit living on at the museum and what is it like to take over someone else’s project? We’d like to share some thoughts and ideas in this guest post.
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