Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. Suggest them to press for a feature in the local paper.

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Collaboration Community Tools Museum 55

Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

Mom and pop stores, a few chain stores, one long main street, pizza shops, and local restaurants are surrounded by a picturesque farmscape. How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community? It’s always been a topic for debate. In a small town, you’re always going to know someone at a third place.

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Place Museum Discussion Pennsylvania 27

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. and then recounted some related fact or history.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Neon CRM

AUGUST 30, 2024

Grants come in many forms, from large federal funds aimed at helping national organizations push for systemic change to smaller local grants focused on community projects. Government Grants Government grants come from, you guessed it, government entities at the national, state, and local levels.

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Grant Proposal Government Local 52

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. Nothing warms my heart like seeing outtakes of a guy trying to scale the walls of MSI, or a man spinning a yarn about his family's long history sleeping in museums.

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Museum Contest Video Chicago 34

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

” And use the word “projected,” because we know that the service definitely impacted people in a positive way and we’re using local statistics to make sure that we’ve captured that impact. Typically, if you’re starting a pilot program and you do not have your own history of success. ” So what?

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Measure Report Process Impact 81

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Summertime concerts at the history museum? But does attendance demonstrate mission fulfillment? Looking at it in this way would also allow institutions to expand beyond reductive "all about attendance" approaches to demonstrating impact. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it.

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St. Louis Impact Museum Denver 55

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2007

Now I work at a history-focused museum with a similar mentality; as a for-profit insititution, we operate more like other guest service businesses (theme parks, restaurants) than collecting institutions. They need to demonstrate an ability to manage and protect priceless items. They're like banks. How do I know that?

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Museum Donor Arts Artist 20

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. One of the things for me, in going to protests and demonstrations about different issues, is that I felt that the protests were really boring, dry and preachy, not fun and compelling.

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Podcast Arts Oakland St. Louis 40