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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.” 25) Keith McLane Keith L.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

Museum 2.0

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. EMPSFM is one of a handful of museums worldwide for which the death of the King of Pop is a very big deal. Are museums only relevant when they can serve our most pressing needs?

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Creature Comfort: Where are the Couches in Museums?

Museum 2.0

In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s four part series on comfort in museums, we get down to the basics: creature comfort. So for this last piece, we look at going the other way: making museums more physically comfortable. There was funky music. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself.

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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

As a kid, I was saturated by symphony performances and choral music. Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots.

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Mall Science: Lessons in Consumer Appeal

Museum 2.0

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. They took regular classes, museum-specific classes, and had internship-style museum jobs.

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Better By the Dozen? Exhibits that Require Multiple People

Museum 2.0

At the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, there is an inverted fountain in the Hall of Ideas on which projections of letters form inspirational quotations which swirl around the pool towards the center. The design questions my museum faces are not about serving individual learners but serving them en masse. Two quick examples: 1.

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I Think You'll Like This. Staff Picks

Museum 2.0

What’s the most endearing part of your local book/music/video store? You can put a display at the front of the museum. The Boston Library main branch used to have an “ask a librarian” booth in the front featuring a person sitting at a card table with some books. staff picks Originally uploaded by BrianDamage.

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