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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

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This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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More Delightful Secrets: How Much Space Would You Give to an Exclusive Subset of your Audience?

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Last week in Denmark, I experienced two more delightful hidden treasures, and they led me to this simple question: how much space and money would you devote to providing an exclusive experience within your institution? As my husband said, that secret room with its mousy trappings was "the coolest part of the whole museum."

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

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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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Happy New Year! Two Free Books! And Watermelon!

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Dear Museum 2.0 I published The Participatory Museum in March (with help from many of you!) While I did learn a ton from my experiences, especially in far-flung places and small museums, it was also exhausting. Fascinating and fun to stretch out from museums for a bit. readers, 2010 was a big year for me.

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