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The Public Argument About Arts Support as Seen through the Lens of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Museum 2.0

But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language). I found only one comment about the diversity of visitors to the DIA, but that was presented in rebuttal to someone saying it is an elitist organization.

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Adventures in Artist-Driven Public Engagement: Machine Project at the Hammer Museum

Museum 2.0

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

Had we held onto an authority voice rather than presenting ourselves as individuals engaged in the project, people would not have been willing to weather the storms with us. Once we realized that virtual exhibits would not translate directly to the real world, we transitioned to a model where the real exhibits were "inspired by" the virtual.

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

And it’s going to be a good presentation, so I’m glad you’re all joining us. I think we’re in double-digit presentations from you now, Claire, that’s pretty exciting. I think you want to be because, after this presentation, you’re going to want to follow Claire, if you aren’t already.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

Why do we count participants in an art activity for families at a community center but not members of the Rotary Club to whom I give a presentation about the museum? visitors business models' as part of a meeting)? For some institutions, like the MCA Denver, attendance is seen as a very poor measure of impact. So perhaps the St.

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Curated Collaborative Filtering: Listening to Pandora

Museum 2.0

You enter a seed artist or song (or several) and Pandora starts playing music that it interprets as related in some way to your selections. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians. Pandora is a model for an alternative. Could I have articulated that at the start? I learned something!

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

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 while narrative-based museums have long dispensed with the concept that museums present a neutral point of view, science centers still feel that their trustworthiness rests on their objectivity.

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