Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. This guest post was written by Steve Yalowitz, one of its authors. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years.

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Museum Intergenerational Studies Facilitation 53

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. It’s all about who has the authority to identify things. There are many museums that are starting to experiment with allowing visitors to tag their online content, whether to engage them in 2.0 Why would they want to do that?

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Tag Fun Game Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. Any big museum has barriers and limitations to full community ownership. Really interesting.

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Green Interview Community Share 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

The whole process of developing an exhibition tends to get stuck behind a museum's doors. Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? So if NSF is funding it, is it only for science exhibitions? Why is that?

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NSF Interview Case Study Museum 20