Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Research and assessment is rare in the arts, and it tends to focus on "proving" our value. Studies of how arts participation affects student test scores. And given what I''ve seen on micro and macro-levels in arts funding and power, I don''t think this strategy is working. Economic impact studies. She needed money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2005

But, found this interesting example of using this new technology to make art more accessible. Art Mobs ??? is a project designed by students in Dr. David Gilbert???sOrganizational s students have produced unofficial audio guides for the Museum of Modern Art and made them available on the Web as podcasts.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is your museum running on interns? It is a strong, museum-focused complement to an excellent three-parter on Createquity about the ethics and future of unpaid arts internships. I got my first real job in a museum (at the Guggenheim) after a life-changing internship. It''s probably a path you had to navigate too.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Two recent events have got me thinking about pranks and unauthorized activities in museums. Improv Everywhere staged an event at the Metropolitan Museum in which an actor posing as King Philip IV of Spain signed autographs in front of his portrait, as painted by Diego Velazquez in the 1620s.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

What do Millennials want from a museum experience? Museum development officers and marketing professionals are all wondering if members of the Millennial generation (born after 1979) will support museums like our parents did. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) seems to think we won’t. The New York Times.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. We decided to select 12 individual works of art from the exhibition, reproduce them as 2.5 Reassert the "forum"?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This year, we took a different approach. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

I feel strongly that there are huge issues with racial and ethnic diversity in museums and arts organizations that deserve a million more posts. One was a conference on pushing our practice in art museums. In library- and museum-land, the participants were 80-90% women. That's why I wrote this.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. I had the pleasure of serving as Principal for a Day at Arizona School for the Arts (ASA) on October 27 via a program put on by HandsOn Greater Phoenix. Whether these students go on to pursue careers in the arts or not, they will be lifelong audience members, advocates, and champions of the arts.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? I immediately recalled a phenomenon I witnessed as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Both are free for students.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

Forum One partnered with the Museum on a full website redesign and upgrade, to welcome more diverse audiences and provide a space to discover our shared American history through a modern, inclusive, and forward-looking digital experience. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2013

Here in Santa Cruz, we''re brushing off our tents and lining up the counselor whistles for Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 We have 75 campers here from around the world who will be working in teams to develop exhibits based on artifacts from our permanent collection that challenge museum conventions and traditional exhibit design practice.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Have you ever been to a museum with no permanent exhibits ? On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. As I walked around delighting in the weirdness that is contemporary art, I realized how advantageous it can be to not have any permanent exhibits. Use Your Space Creatively.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. YES students defy expectations.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

Like a lot of organizations, my museum struggles with two conflicting goals: The museum should be for everyone in our community. At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. And rarely the twain shall meet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

At the Sujaya School, I visited a second grade art class. They start the day with a student posting an inspirational quote on the board. It was designed for learning – almost like an exhibits at any children’s museum in the US. They were busy drawing planets or rockets. How deep is the Pacific Ocean?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Partner with your local museums to offer virtual tours to your donors, complete with fun, educational facts and some behind-the-scenes action. Student art show.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

You can now read all the chapters in The Art of Relevance for free online. You can still buy The Art of Relevance as a paperback, ebook, or audiobook--but you can also read any chapter, any time, online. Take five minutes and learn how the Science Museum in London created better experiences for deaf visitors. It's finally here!

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

Culture, arts, and environmental organizations live and breathe memberships. Schools have students and alums. Collaborate with other nonprofits to cross-promote membership programs; for example, an art museum could partner with a local theater to offer joint memberships or discounts. What is a membership model?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 18, 2022

However, many students and clients I work with compare their cause with others and doubt that they have a compelling enough conflict for a story. But what about arts organizations or museums? Or maybe there was a child who would have never otherwise encountered the arts. What about schools or conservation causes?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Parker, a Seneca Indian who worked as the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. National Native American Heritage Month was created with the intention to provide a platform for American Indians to share and honor their culture, traditions, music, art, dance, beliefs, and ways of life.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2020

As a Historic Interpreter for Telfair Museums, I would lead visitors through the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters on a 45 minute guided tour of antebellum Savannah history discussing politics and urban slavery. When the Museum closed I was expecting the next few weeks to be different. I set up digital lunches.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

DLR Groups upcoming conversion of a department store into the Albany Museum of Art, meanwhile, will avoid about 65% of the embodied carbon emissions (in this case, about 1,600 metric tons) of a new building. In Whittier, it installed interior partition walls, colorful finishes, and new electrical and mechanical systems.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Western Museum Association was kind enough to invite me to speak on a panel about engagement at their annual meeting in Boise. Phillip’s early remark about museums was an invocation for everyone. As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.”

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

But this job is really important to the future of our museum, and I’m hoping that you or someone you know might be a great fit for it. We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. That will come later.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Summertime concerts at the history museum?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2012

I've always been a bit confused when people talk about the impact of a museum or arts institution as being about "more than numbers." I understand that some museum offer extraordinary, intimate programs. I was visiting with Adam Lerner, Director and Chief Animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

For example, a museum could create a fun treasure hunt by having people check at specific galleries or works of art. Harvard University did an experiment with having students use it to explore the campus. Or you could have your supporters add nonprofit locations and tips to Foursquare.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Maybe think about activities you could support that would offer parents a place for their kids to go and learn, like a movie series, art classes, or a small-scale concert. Do you offer a student membership discount?

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2024

When I was working in-house at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, we leaned on an external accessibility partner to help us train our internal teams on best practices. Similarly, it’s imperative that your teams familiarize themselves with established accessibility guidelines such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. Our conversation made me reflect on the museums that most inspire me from a public service perspective--institutions with missions that stretch far beyond their walls. These museums work differently.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin your students science fair projects. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Think about the tire-swing at the park, the basketball court made from old sneaker rubber, the community garden using the snow from an organic office paper shredder as insulation, the kids art project made from old bottle caps, etc.

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