Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It’s pretty normal for Western museums, for example, display objects taken from Non-Western countries. The first thing they wanted to tackle, and I’d argue the essential challenge of our work, was the relationship between museums and communities. Museum work is invisible to those not in the field, as are our norms.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. At the same time, our community relevance was limited.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

When should you turn down the invitation to share your voice? How should you make these decisions in an imperfect world where every host is using you for something, and every voice is in danger of being manipulated, misunderstood, or subverted? There are many ways for voices to get chopped and twisted.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 31, 2014

I''m proud of the way that my own museum works on embeddedness. When I talk to colleagues, I hear they are using Museum 2.0 In its own small way, Museum 2.0 Problem is, I''m only part of a tiny fraction of those conversations. This "problem" disproportionately impacts only one of this blog''s thousands of users: me.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. They talked about community building.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Visitor Voices book club. This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. Rather than rehash each of the projects (hint: read the book!),

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2015

How do we tackle the problem of time? Some people attack the problem by sleeping less. I'm confronting the problem of diminishing time by making more space. This past summer, my museum hosted a retreat for diverse professionals to explore space-making in deep ways. We talked about it. We shared tips and what ifs.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Hi folks, Seems like it's time for another Museum 2.0 If the problem is us, let's start 2011 with some ideas on how to change. book club, where we pick a book, read it, and then I and guest bloggers write about aspects of the book that intrigue and stimulate us.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, I was honored to chair a fabulous panel on empowering museum staff to take creative risks ( slides here ). Beck beautifully described her entry into museum work. What kind of support do you need to be confident about taking a risk in your work?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2007

IM shares this problem; if you don't have an IM client, I can't IM you. However, fortunately, the secondary problem associated with this (you use AIM, I use Gchat) is ameliorated if you use a global IM client like Trillian or Adium. But unlike voice-based communication, it does not distract those around you. Distraction.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. But there's a big problem with the parallel strategy. Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2011

As I drop 5 cent tokens into my slots of choice, I often wonder: could my museum be on this list? If you want to go to the museum and I want to go to the baseball game, we're each making our own choices with our recreational time and money. Would anyone put their token in our slot?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Scientists state a problem, make a hypothesis, develop a test regimen to test the hypothesis, gather data, analyze the results, and make conclusions, which may include stating new problems or hypotheses. Working with the museum or using the museum as a platform to do your own thing?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

These were the people who call problems “opportunities.” Seeing the negative, voicing the reasons for such issues, and then finding solutions are all really hard to do. So, people honest with problems is hard. Or they would only talk about the successes, say. These folks use positivity as a copy mechanism and a shield.

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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. Teens are developmentally focused on social identity-building and may feel more compelled to share their voices and express themselves than others than other visitors.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 27, 2008

If your museum has many voices in the real world, you will most powerfully and honestly convey yourself virtually if you can reflect the diversity of your institution. The marketing director for a mid-size science museum, Jeff, recently showed me a YouTube channel he’d discovered which was created by a camp staff member at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The voices are in the room. When it comes to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in nonprofits, I believe we have a path problem. There are funding initiatives. Grassroots activism. Academic research. Conferences and white papers and toolkits and blogs. And yet, very little seems to change. The enthusiasm is high.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. A crowd made up of diverse people with as many perspectives as there are people can, when faced with a question, problem or idea, generate a coalescing of sense and thence a consensus.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2007

I was talking recently to David Klevan, Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Initiatives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (say that three times fast), about some of their awesome experiments with online discussion groups, blogs, and 2.0 Go downstairs and flip through the comment book at your museum’s front desk.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2009

In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

This is a problem specific to open-ended projects. No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. Most visitor-generated museum experiences are about creating, not curating, content. Why not museums?

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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. Plus, they know the challenges facing your community and can help you connect with others to solve problems and spread your mission in your local area. Host info sessions for potential volunteers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

I've spent several hours perusing the WWO time machine, finding the voices, images, and missions most interesting and applicable to my lifestyle. But the biggest question in my mind is: what lessons can museums (and game designers, and etc.) And I immediately considered that that argument is not one which museums could easily present.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The problem is that most print mail from nonprofits is boring. Get back to your roots and find your voice on social media. Millennials and Gen X appreciate snail mail that isn’t a bill or a notice of a bill to come. could break through the clutter of tri-fold fundraising appeals and dense print newsletters. And be human.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

But here's the problem: the vast majority of people who read your blog aren't reading it because they want or plan to comment on it. Museum 2.0's The top three most commented-on posts on this blog are: What I Learned on My Summer Vacation (or, I am an Elitist Jerk) Warning: Museum Graduate Programs Spawn Legions of Zombies!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

When is the last time you read a book or a magazine article about a social/environmental/political issue that not only addressed the problems, but also solutions? The book is also filled with stories of citizen activists making a difference. So refreshing.

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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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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

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. I blogged about the opportunity in September 2009, and then faced a new problem: 92 people expressed their interest in helping.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Invest in organizations like Women Made Gallery , American Women Artists , the Professional Organization for Women in the Arts , WGAW , and the National Museum of Women in the Arts which help give a voice and a future to female artists worldwide. No chase boat, no support, no film crew, no problem. Shero Thought Leaders.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" If the museum isn't in control, how can it thrive? It lets you be the only expert with a voice.

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