Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2019

Museums, like all professional fields, are spaces policed by unwritten norms and regulated by our credentialing systems. For example, many museums focus on issues like ticket prices or transportation as a way to remove access barriers. Because, we often see the "solution" to the problem in terms we have already determined.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

I think identification of problems could be a very exciting opportunity, to build up a detailed list of requirements that could inspire developers and problem solvers. Are they intended to inspire students? These encourage students and professors to think about accessibility. Recognize past accomplishments?

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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. They walk dogs at your animal shelter, ask for donations on your behalf, and spend their Saturday afternoons tutoring students. Students make great volunteers! However, some people do.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Young people are not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's tech-centric workforce—and that's a huge problem. The good news is that digital literacy is becoming part of lesson plans for K-12 students in public schools. Additionally, some students don't have digital access at home.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

We're in the business of finding a solution to this problem. I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. Our conversation made me reflect on the museums that most inspire me from a public service perspective--institutions with missions that stretch far beyond their walls.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2012

While some museums are using the tool in clever public-facing ways , that's not what's happening here at the MAH. At our museum, our programs team is using Pinterest to develop ideas for upcoming community events. We're using it to solve a basic internal communication problem.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. No small task for a museum exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Museum Conversation Columbus Local 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

Ready for a math problem? A museum holds a free program in a semi-public space. Last weekend, my museum did a little pilot of a new program, Downward Draw. We held a free yoga class in the plaza outside the museum and invited artists to come and draw/paint the yoga-doers in motion. How many people participated?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2015

I have an unusual education for the director of an art & history museum: a degree in electrical engineering. Engineering taught me to be a tinkerer, a builder, and a problem solver. I've filled some gaps in my cultural education through a career in museums: reading, looking, exploring, listening.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

We have the answer, not just a problem. We shouldn’t just go to our donors with a problem and expect them to fix it with money. We are the organization that has the answer to the problem, and we need their help to make that solution a reality. If they can’t (or won’t) give now, don’t write them off.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2010

Let's say you're a young person eager to break into museums. Over my first year in museums, I worked at five different institutions as an educator, exhibit builder, exhibit cleaner, art model, and whatever else I could find. Now, several years of full-time museum work later, I'm consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

At least three nonprofit groups — Students for Sensible Drug Policy , the Marijuana Policy Project and an anti-abortion group, Justice for All — say they believe that Chase disqualified them over concerns about associating its name with their missions. The Role of Experts: Pepsi has a list of some difficult social change problems to solve!

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits are giving back to the web analytics community because our experienced analysts work directly with “student learners” so that they can gain valuable “hands on” interaction with web data. . Joining Analysis Exchange is completely free and the entire process takes about three weeks beginning to end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

At least three nonprofit groups — Students for Sensible Drug Policy , the Marijuana Policy Project and an anti-abortion group, Justice for All — say they believe that Chase disqualified them over concerns about associating its name with their missions.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers). And then at the end, when she asked how many of us could do this in our own museums, no hands went up. We loved it.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Imagine asking a question and being able to experience the answer in 3D or, using augmented reality to let an archaeology student participate in a dig in the classroom. Augmented reality, for all its computer-generated glory, can make a problem or solution tangible. AR has a host of applications for the nonprofit and education sectors.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2012

When your museum gallery space floods during a freak storm, you know you’re in for some headaches, tough choices, and unexpected fundraising challenges as you deal with major water damage. Over time, especially when the weather got cold, students stopped hurrying outside and more people chose to ignore the alarms altogether.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin your students science fair projects. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. To pull this off well you'll want to print up some effective signage to orient people to what Pinterest is about and how the museum is using it. Collect images that demonastrate the problem your are trying to solve. If you're a school: 8.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Last month, the Christian Science Monitor published an article entitled, "Museums' new mantra: Connect with community." It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission. Which community?

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Let’s say your auction is dedicated to increasing educational opportunities for students in need. Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021. Check out their Instagram homepage: [This is a screenshot of Art & History Museums-Maitland’s Instagram account.].

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. It is great to feel more of a part of the museum!" "All

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. Some students folding clothes. This problem isn't unique to Temple Contemporary. As a visitor, I'm not sure what I left with. Empty pegboards.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Pop quiz: How much does it cost to go a museum? How much for a student? Museums can range from free to about $30 for admission. But even more than this confusion, I believe museums suffer from a lack of consistent expectations when it comes to price and purchase options. So why can’t museums do it?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2007

Whatever your degree (or your opinion about museum graduate programs ), the thing that continues to be highly valued (and sought after by employers) is experience. I’m not talking about internships, which are as plentiful in museums as label copy. But I’ve never seen a museum advertising for apprentices. And that’s the trick.

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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

MARCH 18, 2008

In the museum world, we often talk about lowering barriers to entry, helping people get through the door. And so today we look at an educational facility (not a museum) that swabs the deck with these barriers. A tutoring center is even more stereotyped than a museum in terms of the public's expectation about who it is "for."

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Education Museum Audience Design 21

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? It drives me nuts when I’m in a museum that has made a half-hearted attempt to thematically connected galleries or exhibits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

I probably know less than Jenny [a student speaking at the rally] about whence I speak, and possess maybe a quarter of her energy, and yet the unitiated and heretofore uninterested are now beginning to pool to hear what Basher Tarr of Ocean's eleven/twelve/ etc. Cheadle's stories reveal the reality of being a celebrity activist. has to say.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Some of the new volunteers are high school students, others are college professors. From CUL’s perspective, if you’re reading to other writers, that’s not a problem, it’s a community. We start each official meeting with introductions. A lot of them are new to the city and looking to make friends.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

I can't wait to see the curriculum guides they release in September to get students playing the game. But the biggest question in my mind is: what lessons can museums (and game designers, and etc.) In museums, desire to avoid the political often creates obstacles to creating meaningful content. You can still get involved.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Studies of how arts participation affects student test scores. This kind of research has two big problems: It puts most of our assessment capacity into research for someone else, on someone else''s terms. The study was extensive and methodologically robust, and the results are making the rounds of museum and art publications and blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

That's part of the problem - it is still a fairly steep learning curve to master SL and to really understand the potential you have to experience it. we will have witnesses and student-lawyers speak in text under disciplines of civility and rules of evidence, subject to objection by opponents and ruling by the judge, who will be me.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

There are lots of things visitors can’t do in museums. But what about the things that museum professionals can’t (or feel they can’t) do? This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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