Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I find North American museums to be risk-averse. Pioneers of communitario museums.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Now, not all of you will get to spend every other week for months chatting with Rob about museums, but I wanted to offer you a slice of how wonderful that can be. This week Rob will share some ideas about museum work. The Activity Level Discussion in Museums: Is a Role Marketplace an Answer? People make museums.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Learn more at the link above. Areas served: Worldwide. The Andrew W.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. National Parks Conservation Association :: @ NPCA. Ocean Conservancy :: @ OurOcean. Trevor Project :: @ TrevorProject. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless. National Council of La Raza :: @ NCLR. National Wildlife Federation :: @ NWF.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. His project, Is It Necessary? It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. If an artist can come into a museum and smash stuff, what does that tell visitors? But art museums are coming back from the dead.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Anderson Cancer Center Children’s Art Project :: View Collection. The Children’s Art Project began focuses on providing cheer and comfort for young cancer patients and helps fund college scholarships and educational programs that prepare patients for successful lives after cancer. Museum of Modern Art :: View Collection.

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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. We’d love to share. I am a bisexual cis woman.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Field Museum :: fieldmuseum.org. Nature Conservancy :: nature.org. Project Aware :: projectaware.org. Amnesty International :: amnestyusa.org. CARE :: care.org. Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) :: glaad.org. London Symphony Orchestra :: lso.co.uk. Media Matters :: mediamatters.org.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. David describes himself as a "museum brat."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. It is an open study/storage facility displaying about thirty-three hundred objects from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. We are storage, after all.

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DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

Managed by the Pinellas County Parks and Conservation Resources Department, the Gardens are free and open to the public year-round. But the Gardens aren’t the only draw, it shares a campus with several other organizations: a heritage village, an art museum, the Extension services, as well as the county parks department. .

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

The whole day was spent in passionate discussion about research projects, international crises, and serious, cost-intensive efforts for zoos and aquaria to take action to improve the fate of elephants and other species at risk. You can track exactly where what projects your money supports. I certainly didn''t.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm that serves clients nationwide, including those in higher education, museums, schools, performing arts, human services, healthcare, and religious organizations. Alexander Haas. Website: [link]. Website: [link] (think this is old: [link] ). The Munshine Group. Website: [link].

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2010

When I was in Taiwan, I heard again and again from museum professionals: "We are very conservative in Taiwanese museums. This post is a photo essay focusing on an area at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts called the Digiark. We're not doing innovative things with visitor participation or Web 2.0. This may be true.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

The full list of updated fundraising consultants will also help you find the right fit for your project. The firm is especially committed to working with partners involved in performing arts, the environment and conservation, education, and women. Chelsea Brown I have experience as a “double agent” in philanthropy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2016

The first nonprofit spotted on my #HagueDayTrip is the Mauritshuis – a #museum that holds a world-famous collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the fifteenth to eighteenth century. The first nonprofit spotted on my #HagueDayTrip was the Mauritshuis – home to the best Dutch paintings from the Golden Age. . HagueDayTrip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Speakers included Chicagoans like Rayid Ghani , founder of the Data Science for Social Good Summer fellowship; Mark Mathyer of the Museum of Science & Industry; and Lauren Haynes of GiveForward. I was taken completely off-guard by the interest in the conference,” says Andrew.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. I’m always curious when I meet these folks, who are about my age, choosing a different entry path into the museum world. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. Sure, it’s great to learn museum theory and history.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm that serves clients nationwide, including those in higher education, museums, schools, performing arts, human services, healthcare, and religious organizations. Alexander Haas. Website: [link]. Website: [link] (think this is old: [link] ). The Munshine Group. Website: [link].

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

In many cases, once the final project is launched, it's hard to detect the participatory touch. The exhibition or program is of high quality, and from the visitor perspective, it may look like museum as usual. The exhibition includes a large display of objects from the Museum's ethnographic collection selected by small children.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. No small task for a museum exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2007

Inventory isn't a museum activity that inspires curiosity in many visitors. This summer, the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art ( Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde) is trying to change that. People often talk about non-collecting museums as the museums of the future. You can read more here in German.)

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5 Environmental Impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5 Environmental Impact.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

The partners we work with--to catalyze projects within and beyond our walls--are just as important as our visitors to fulfilling our mission. Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Kickstarter is a website for creative folks to find funding for their dream projects. Currently, the site supports US-based projects only. A Kickstarter project has three parts: Project description. This is typically a video plus text, although some projects just use a simple image instead of a video. Funding goal.

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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

JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). But it's a lot of fun, and it could be a great way to construct a personalized takeaway from a museum experience. Then a number.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Museums, zoos, and aquariums are finding that crowdfundraising can be a strategic tool to add to their fundraising playbook. Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum. What project or ideas at your organization fit that description?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

If people on the street are talking about X, the museum should be talking about X too. I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Our mandate was to be the museum of Silicon Valley--not of its material history, but its pulse of innovation. Other times, grounded in the museum's collection.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Start conservative and build from there. into their repertoire?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. MoFuse :: mofuse.com. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. Before the Princes of Surf exhibition, these boards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. Relevance only leads to deep meaning if it leads to something significant. Killer content. Substantive programming.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Fund specific projects. Many nonprofits choose to use mobile fundraising to fund specific projects. These organizations often use mobile giving to fund specific projects and widen their support networks. #2. Now pledges can be made anywhere at any time with mobile devices. One click here. Two clicks there. Health and wellness.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Joe also shared some great Pinterest use-cases for nonprofits to experiment with including a Pinboards of fashionable used clothes available in Goodwill stores and beautiful images endangered frogs Conservation International is working to save. Pin your students science fair projects. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19.

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