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Guest Post by Jasper Visser: Storytelling for Social Cohesion at Story House Belvédère

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This small, startup cultural project in Rotterdam works directly and intimately with community members to share their stories. 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.

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

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Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. Wild idea" sessions , featuring six dream projects, some already in motion, others firmly ensconsed in their creators' heads.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 1: How Do You Create a Future-Thinking History Museum?

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The staff was fired, the digital projects divvied out to other institutions, the plans for the physical museum shelved. The root of my frustration with the book is not that the project never came to fruition. It's that the project, which was pitched as a whole new approach to museum-making, seems inconsistent.

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Upcoming Museum 2.0 Book Club: Blueprint

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Once there was a project to design a national history museum in the Netherlands. The team developed some highly innovative digital projects and approaches to history. Three years later, at the end of 2011, the project was canceled. The book was released just four months after the project was officially canceled.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

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That's the question we've been grappling with as we start the OF/BY/FOR ALL initiative. We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. OF/BY/FOR ALL is one of many projects in a growing ecosystem of efforts to propel more inclusive institutions.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

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It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). But in general, the project went smoothly.

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Guest Post: Rearranging the Fossils - Using Museum 2.0 to Get a Stuck Innovation Process Moving Again

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The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. Uninitiated outsiders are allowed to ask dumb questions, which sometimes can elicit illuminating answers. One would have expected signs of serious disagreements and fundamental discussions, but no signs of these were found.

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