Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Museum programs need to then actively respond to their communities through a variety of ongoing discursive, collaborative and inclusive formats that address needs and assets but also invite communities to be active participants in this process.

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Museum Program Community Participatory 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

From Cornell I went to the intergenerational, national nonprofit called Magic Me. Most of the projects with these programs were carried out collaboratively; so I had a chance to see how different kinds of organizations, from grassroots to national, operate. It focused on collaborative e-learning.

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Arts Community Online Teach 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

The second half covers our work at the MAH (and by implication, at other "scrappy small museums") to collaborate with community members to co-create institutions for people of diverse backgrounds. The first half of the article covers high-priced events like adult sleepovers and Museum Hack tours at major urban museums.

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Audience Washington Museum Intergenerational 49

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. As we developed new 3rd Friday community festivals , we were careful to design them as intergenerational experiences. We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center.

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Community Build Museum Artist 20