Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

This week, we consider Chapter 11 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum , "Function Follows Form: How mixed-used spaces in museums build community," but first, a short and relevant note about my writing process. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all. a disparate mix of useful services.

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Museum Los Angeles Arts Children 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

This week, a look at Chapters 16 and 17 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum. Why don't more museums do this? Many museums, especially large ones, exhibit the worst of the feudal cubicle wars--the Collections Department vs. the Exhibition Department vs. the Education Department.

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Team Museum Chapter Design 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

I created a directional pyramid to make a point about social content in museum; namely, that museums are not offering networked, social experiences—and therefore will have a hard time jumping to initiating meaningful social discourse. And I’m not advocating that the dream museum would be all level 5 experiences, all the time.

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Taxonomy Social Museum Wikipedia 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. Next week, we'll conclude by talking about opportunities for institutional change with chapter 8, "Turning the Ocean Liner Slowly." have portrayed Indians inaccurately."

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Culture Storytelling Museum Challenge 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

When writing The Art of Relevance , I knew I wanted to share a bit of his story and the ways artists negotiate the relevance of their own work. Here's that chapter. No museum puts up a label that says: “Our last curator thought this painting was lousy and kept it in storage. The work is the work. They made magic at the MAH.

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Arts Museum North America Music 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

He is also a member & ambassador of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce Board and a member and the BNI Alaska Business Pipeline Chapter, a business referral networking group. Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. Dan is bilingual in English and Spanish.

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Fundraising Nonprofit Charity Benefit 272

Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)? Dias de las Muertos or Chinese New Year to attract new audiences.

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

In order to get a book published, I was told I had to have a museum exhibit. Fortunately, the Field Museum in Chicago mounted an exhibit of the photographs for In Her Hands. I did get back to her, and I said that I would consider doing the other chapters about their grantees with two stipulations. PG: My website!

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