Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. Blogging gave me a way to formalize out-of-work learning in a format I enjoy. I''ve never taken a break from blogging before.

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Museum Participatory Reflection Conference 35

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. I came on in 2010 to start the statewide nonprofit network. Where it didn''t work, no local support stepped up. What happened to the ones that folded? That taught us a lot.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. There's not a lot of work in pinball, and I had a deep secondary interest in unschooling and free-choice learning. I didn't really care what kind of museum I went to as long as I could work for a rock star.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52