Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

ska, an art historian interested in museums, education, and new technologies. Museum-themed apps, which I work with, are mostly just gallery guides. For example, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York created a fantastic iPad application called MoMA Books that lets you buy e-book versions of out-of-print publications.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The title may sound innocuous. There's the barrier of the concern that this work is "social work" and not art--and therefore doesn't belong in a museum or a theater. He got to see the museum process from the inside. The paper is anything but.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

SFMOMA’s Museum Store board is one of the its top three boards in terms of followers. If recent research showing that 1 out of 5 people who pin items later purchase them holds true for museum store purchases, then SFMOMA’s board should should a good return. Inspirational Visual Quotes. Gardening/Farming. Technology.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Children are easy to applaud, and easy to ignore. Lots of trust involved Adults serve as listeners, observers and sounding boards (i.e.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

Their four central points may sound familiar: Stories are universal. Right now in Pakistan, that's one of the only ways to get food — so thousands of children are going hungry." "On Holocaust Museum, Aspen Institute, Audubon Society, SaveOurEnvironment.org, Opportunity Agenda, and United Nations Association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

Another fundraiser NFT is looking to sell Non-fungible Doge art with 10% of profits going to Save the Children, with TheGivingBlock.com supporting the transaction (source: [link] ). The NFT is the result of a partnership with the Muhammad Ali Center, a museum dedicated to Ali’s life. Embed from Getty Images.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. with sharpies.

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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. Plus, I know the next time I’m in Chicago, the museum will be a totally different experience, so I’m highly motivated to go back. Because they had a holiday light display.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

I wanted to extend my research about [using] everyday sound,” he says. In 2012, Data Garden was invited to create an installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. At Patitucci’s installations, he noticed that children would act as if they were somehow charging the plants and their sounds, holding their hands up to them. “I

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with. When you are brainstorming, your words might not sound so polished, which is fine. The mother’s two children were doing terribly in school and fighting with each other constantly.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

On Musematic , Holly Witchey has rigorously recorded her recent experience at WebWise, a " IMLS/RLG/OCLC/Getty sponsored conference" on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World that was held March 1-2. Broun talked about SAAM's initiatives both in the museum and on the web to open up their content base for visitors to use in their own ways.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2013

I once interviewed for a job with an organization in Atlanta that sold coupon booklets door-to-door to support a children’s wheelchair basketball league. It sounded like a worthy cause, until I asked what percentage of sales actually went to the league. That sounds pretty terrible… but how can we know for sure?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2014

Museums, Politics, and Power is a new blog that lives up to its name. Sound familiar? Finally, if you need a hit of inspiration and historical museum-making, I strongly recommend checking out the Boston Stories project. This week, a kitchen sink of inspiring bits. Petersburg. This stuff is so early it''s practically prenatal.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Nikki created "The Ministry of Rules" --a shadow organization that existed for one week during half-term break, staffed by visitors who served as "Inspectors" investigating, exploring, and poking fun at the rules that make museums and galleries go. How did the museum staff respond to this experience? How did this project come about?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Making the switch from value to affinity membership programs can sound risky. Families like the idea that museum memberships offer a low-cost alternative to recreational activities like the movies, which cost money every time you go. Value membership is a big business, especially in a tough economic climate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 15, 2009

They often interview children as sources for their stories. Holocaust Memorial Museum I realize that listening to interviews about genocide and human rights isn't everyone's idea of background sound while making dinner, but because I'm interested in these issues, I appreciate having a place where I can find the niche news I'm looking for.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

It sounds creepy, but this is info you can (and should) use. The same is true for your museum. If they dropped their children off at parents-night-out be sure to mention the current promotion on family memberships. There’s no reason that arts and cultural organizations can’t do the same thing. You know where they are.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." This is the opposite situation of the previous design goal, one typical in science and children's museums.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2010

My first jobs were in science and children's museums. And even if the phenomena on display are complex and unknowable even for advanced scientists, the whole experience is typically geared toward children and stripped of its mystery and potential power. Why doesn't every museum have plants everywhere?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2007

Ellen explained that in 2005, when she quit her job, she discovered A Treasure's Trove , a children's book by Michael Stadther , in which fireflies and grasshoppers coexist with layered puzzles and mysteries. Here's the problem I see with museum-based narratives and games: people don't revisit exhibits the way they revisit games.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

In one common scenario, a parent gets their children involved in an organization and that child continues their support into the next generation. Also involved in your organization is her daughter Nina, a 22-year-old literacy coach who volunteers her time for many of your projects focused on children.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

This might make Advice sound more like an educational program than an exhibit, or like a failure on the unfacilitated front. They reminded me of street vendors or great science museum cart educators, imparting an energy to the space without overwhelming it. This is a good lesson for museum talk-back design.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour. When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Megan Smith incisively covered the sad state of staffing in the museum industry pre-coronavirus, as well as her fears for staffers post-coronavirus, in a previous post for Museum 2.0 , so I won’t belabor this one. It’s been informative to see the range of museum responses to a world in which people cannot physically visit our campuses.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 12, 2017

This one sounds a bit unintuitive, but let’s face it, asking people to donate money to your nonprofit is a buzzkill. For example, ask them to “Give clean water”, “Feed hungry children”, “Stop human trafficking, etc. The reason why is that the word “donate” doesn’t place the donor in the role of the hero.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. As Elaine puts it in the essay, When I was last involved in such an endeavor, it was when the Boston Children's Museum was small, insignificant, and unselfconscious.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

It's Labor Day, and across the country, a working dichotomy is manifest in museums. For mostly practical reasons, museum staff offices have shifted over the last couple decades further and further from the public. Arguably, much of what happens behind the scenes at museums has little bearing on the visitor experience and vice versa.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

This is the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s book club on Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , a collection of essays edited by Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean. Ultimately, the arguments against including visitor voices come down to a lack of respect for visitors as meaning-makers in museums. It seems so basic.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I once interviewed for a job with an organization in Atlanta that sold coupon booklets door-to-door to support a children’s wheelchair basketball league. It sounded like a worthy cause, until I asked what percentage of sales actually went to the league. That sounds pretty terrible… but how can we know for sure?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2016

By 2015, the Elks Lodge had become a haven for LGBT parents of young children. When you are on the inside, this doesn’t sound like inclusive language. It sounds threatening. It sounds like the thing that you hold dear being adulterated for public consumption. But funny things were afoot at Lodge 824 in Santa Cruz.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

When I attended, the theme was “Inkery”, so besides getting access to all the standard interactive exhibits, I was also able to get a caricature drawn, get ‘inked’ at a squid dissection, get a henna tattoo, decorate a sugar cookie with natural food dyes, and enjoy light snacks and drinks – all while a DJ mixed top tracks over the sound system.

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