Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When I spoke with Kate Roberts about MN150 , the Minnesota History Center exhibition based on visitor-generated nominations, she explained that after the nomination period was over, they entirely shut down visitor engagement in the selection process. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. The photos above were provided by Paul Martin of the Science Museum of Minnesota from their award-winning exhibition RACE.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? If we think about network effects not in terms of data collection but in terms of a useful outcome for visitors and institutions, we can design platforms that reflect our participatory values. exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. And people aren't just thinking about this stuff; many museums have taken real, exciting action in the last year. There is funding.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. So, for example, when we were working on a community policing project, I used to work in Minnesota, and about 15 years ago, we had another wave of immigrants, refugees that came from Southeast Asia and different countries from Africa. How do we do this well?

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. The Innocence Project is a tremendously participatory project, with hundreds of volunteers around the country. Not that it was sad, but that it was human.

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MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. When I spoke with Kate Roberts about MN150 , the Minnesota History Center exhibition based on visitor-generated nominations, she explained that after the nomination period was over, they entirely shut down visitor engagement in the selection process.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” Well, we knew we wanted to do an exhibit to mark the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary of the birth of the state of Minnesota).

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