Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

In the history gallery, we have some blended props and artifacts, and it's rarely clear what is and is not ok to touch. Engagement with local artists. One of the things we love about exhibiting local artists is that they are often here to talk with visitors about their work. This was amazing. More hardening (without casework).

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Museum Denver Artist Milwaukee 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

We''ve seen surprising and powerful results--visitors from different backgrounds getting to know each other, homeless people and museum volunteers working together, artists from different worlds building new collaborative projects. There are some groups who we work with terrifically in their own space but who we rarely engage in ours.

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Museum Social Arts History 55

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. First, they replaced staff with volunteers--some entirely spontaneous--at the advice booth. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Advice Museum Student Facilitation 31