Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

--Elaine Heumann Gurian, The Importance of "And" Recently, I''ve been embroiled in local and national conversations about the relationship between active participation and quiet contemplation in museums. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. Some visit the archives.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.”

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Do you consider yourself an "activist" for your organization, avocation, or art form? Sure, I admire cultural organizations that have a strong mission to change education or diversify access or transform the role of art in everyday life, but I'm an insider. A national election is the ultimate participatory project.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I'm also always interested in how the national media portrays changes in the cultural sector. Executive Director Nina Simon, who was hired in 2011, says that in the years following the global financial crisis, the facility was struggling. “At

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Interestingly--for good and ill--this transformative funding program coincided with a national funding crisis in the arts in the UK. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? didn't mince words.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. After a long day running around a science center, I would show up at the Worcester Art Museum in the evening and make $20 just to stand around and listen to a painting instructor talk about art.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

Many of the talks are related to The Participatory Museum and I will have books for sale on all of these forays. I'm giving a free talk at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the evening of the 22nd, and then a free workshop on the 23rd at the National Postal Museum on designing better mechanisms for visitor feedback and response.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. 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. I loved this video by Tracie Farrell. Museum staffers.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 12, 2011

I've experienced all kinds of fabulous museums and participatory experiences from Stockholm to Columbus, Ohio, many of which I will be sharing soon on this blog. This is a special two-fer that includes a lunchtime presentation by Jim Leach, the newish Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We're taking the art of freelancing for writers, and making it much more transparent and much more public. It's easier for people to get really passionate about national issues, but local issues are just as important. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” For this reason, I spoke specifically about how to make dream projects possible at real institutions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion. Dear Museum 2.0-ers,

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? But comments on the gamers' forum like: An internet collaborative [sic] art display in a national museum?

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Candid

DECEMBER 26, 2024

At this moment in the arts and social justice sectors, were seeing greater visibility of disability cultureled by disabled creatives including artist, composer JJJJJerome Ellis , filmmaker Jim LeBrecht , and writer Alice Wong. Funding disabled creatives advances the arts and social justice.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. 2016 Alliance National Conference. Nonprofit Management.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! of art, activism, and academic inquiry on the politically charged. Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8. His forthcoming.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection of art, activism and academic inquiry on the politically charged questions surrounding globalization and social justice. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

For a long time, I’ve admired their ambitious work, from exhibitions on complex topics like network science to integration of contemporary art into their galleries to incredible dedication to advancing the careers of diverse youth in Queens. Then again, the New York Hall of Science isn’t just any science center. Paul five years ago.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We dont have digital data for a lot of human intelligence, because people werent valuing the people who produce those books, or the people who produce that art. In fact, we do know that its being used by criminal investigators and national security services to identify patterns in organized-crime networks and things like that.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The one BerkShare note honors the local Mohican nation; W.E.B. As a platform for such local activity, more participatory forms of engagement are already envisaged—an area “culture pass” for museums and arts institutions is one exciting example—to further stimulate local activity.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. People participate in national and local politics--and they do so completely differently. National politics are sweeping, remote. Printmakers leading workshops. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms.

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