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Museum 2.0
APRIL 1, 2010
This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. COST: Museum books tend to be expensive - because they are printed in small runs, the price for a 400-page paperback can be as high as $40.
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 5, 2008
The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0.
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Museum 2.0
MARCH 10, 2008
Thank you to Susan Spero and all the folks at JFKU and Left Coast Press for starting a highly stimulating conversation this weekend at the colloquium on Museums and Civic Discourse. There were, as we say in the museum business, some good aha moments. What role should museums play in promoting discourse?
Museum 2.0
MARCH 28, 2008
Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices.
Museum 2.0
MAY 26, 2009
On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. The paper is perforated with one section for the promise, which visitors keep, and another section for a signature, which visitors leave at the museum.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 25, 2009
We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. 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."
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 19, 2009
The call was from Mercedes Martinez and Zachary Kent, the people behind an internet radio show called Dial-A-Stranger. They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ). Dial-A-Stranger is what it sounds like.
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