Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

Now, a year later, I've seen the beginnings of how that question has borne out at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) , as well as hearing from folks around the museum industry about the interplay of exhibitions and events at their own institutions. And so, in this post, a few findings, and more questions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. People are now coming to the library to see it as it includes content by all the 500 participants from that night. My focus is on how children learn science. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

The Odditoreum is a temporary gallery for the summer school holiday in which the Powerhouse is displaying eighteen very odd objects alongside fanciful (and fictitious) labels written by children's book author Shaun Tan, schoolchildren, and visitors. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

" Over the years, I taught many workshops for arts educators on how to integrate the web into the curriculum, although not as much recently since I have two small children. Note to self: Time to rethink the old 1998-99 version of " Zen and the Art of Internet Searching " to incorporate tags/blogs).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. People were quite content to simply come along and draw things and make things and do things. I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

But Wally Wood inspired this post, and got me thinking about how we approach the task of content creation. To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks. Still reading?

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. So I packed up and moved down the East Coast.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

They’re assets, like Pokémon cards and also like actually awesome digital art, that can be owned and traded—only they’re all digital. Recently, Save the Children partnered with NFDoge, a platform that sells “Non-Fungible Doge” artwork. What types of content might have value? This, I think, is what buying NFTs are like.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year! Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? Are they wanting to fund capacity-building initiatives?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year! Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Melissa Schilling , writer and photographer for Project Hope Art. She advises organizations to make blogging a part of a their content strategy only if it aligns with their communication plan. The success of Project Hope Art's blog has come from understanding what their audience wants and how to move them to action.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. 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.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Depending on your budget, you may be able to get a popular artist, but you can also reach out to local musicians. Invest in a reliable livestreaming tool or (depending on the idea) collect pre-recorded video content beforehand. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area? Recreational Fundraising Ideas.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2009

Recently, I've become obsessed with the work of Tim Hunkin , an eccentric British inventor/exhibit designer/wacky science art guy who runs a "mad arcade" of coin-operated installations in Suffolk. allows artists and inventors to supply their work directly to users rather than going through time-consuming and copyright-swallowing middlemen.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. Not so for the post-its.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

And an art gallery. Elaine points out that children's museums and children's areas in particular are often designed to encourage seemingly unsupervised play opportunities for kids while also providing seating for adults to engage socially while watching the action. This is the ultimate mixed-use space. It's a laundromat.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 27, 2011

." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2007

My background is in science and children's museums, where it's relatively easy to keep visitors in the foreground. But art museums and other institutions that collect specialized artifacts are judged by their collections more than by the visitor experience they provide. This starts with expectations and is exacerbated by economy.

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