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Museum Work Today: All the Feels All the Time

Museum 2.0

It’s the person who answers your question about zoom or the person who passes on their work at home policy. Maybe that’s not the question for today though. Because to go back to comfort, I’d say let that question wait for a few days. While donations are going down, global interest in museums seem a boom industry.

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Throwing Open The Doors

Museum 2.0

As many a museum parent, I also assume I am dragging my children with me, often forgetting that they like museums. One of my children asked if we could go into the museum. Prior to this, my children had stopped at every odd junk-shop-cum-museum off of Interstate 90. I mean it had its doors open.

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The Power of Pretzels

VQ Strategies

Clearly these were meant to be distributed as we were 30,000 feet above Ohio perhaps, partway into my flight between Newark and Denver. We know of one museum that is part of a larger institution and must abide by the larger organization’s plans, phasing opening by program and building in order to ensure the safety of the public and the staff.

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Quick Hit: Three Blogs to Expand Your Arts Nonprofit Universe

Museum 2.0

Each of them comes from the extended family of museums: close enough to be relevant, far enough to spark new thinking. Joe Patti runs a performing arts center in Ohio. His posts open up questions and ways of thinking about audiences, marketing, management, and engagement that get me thinking differently. Butts in the Seats.

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The Matter of Museums

Museum 2.0

This month we’ve been thinking about “What is a museum?” (I'm I’ve been visiting museums my whole life. Does that make me the best judge of museums? People are the defining characteristics of museums. I’ve worked with and at plenty of museums that can sometimes feel empty. I'm not alone there.

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Change from the Inside: A Conversation with COSI

Museum 2.0

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. COSI is a hands-on science center in Columbus, Ohio. David, COSI’s CEO, really trusts his staff to engage appropriately in the social Web in ways that support and add value to the museum.

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The Wildness in the Corner: A Discussion with Jason Nelson

Museum 2.0

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?