Showing posts with label participatory museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label participatory museum. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

The Art of Gathering: A Fabulous Book to Help You Host Better Meetings and Events

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I remember the first staff meeting I ever ran. I had just started at the MAH as the new executive director. The museum was in huge financi...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018

This is What the Participatory Museum Sounds Like

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It's late in the afternoon. I'm cranking away on a grant proposal, when suddenly, a classical rendition of "All the Single La...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

What is the Turkey and the Bread (or the Sourdough Starter) of the MAH?

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Last month, I went to an amazing training called the Skid Row School for Social Change . The mission of the Skid Row School is to train le...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

Guest Post by Jasper Visser: Storytelling for Social Cohesion at Story House Belvédère

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I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future . This small, startup cultural projec...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Platform Power: Scaling Impact

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Last month, I sat in the back of a meeting room at the MAH and watched something extraordinary happen. Our county board of supervisors had...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

How Do You Inspire Visitors to Take Action After They Leave?

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This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (b...
Monday, January 09, 2017

Against Participation

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At first, I thought it was a joke. A colleague at UC Santa Cruz asked me to participate in a social practice symposium called Against Pa...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Temple Contemporary and the Puzzle of Sharing Powerful Processes

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The first thing I noticed about Temple Contemporary were the chairs. Desk chairs and theater seats, sleek modsters and dilapidated stuf...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

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Six years ago, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation set out on an ambitious quest. They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make s...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

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You're planning a new exhibition. Considering a new strategic direction. Designing a new program. And you've decided that you want...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Does Community Participation Scale to Destination Institutions?

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Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. We invite diverse locals to share ...
Thursday, February 04, 2016

One Simple Question to Make Your Work More Participatory

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Photo by CLoé Zarifian, MAH Photo Intern We're working with a guest curator, Wes Modes , on an upcoming experimental project at our ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

ASKing about Art at the Brooklyn Museum: Interview with Shelley Bernstein and Sara Devine

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I’ve always been inspired by the creative ways the Brooklyn Museum uses technology to connect visitors to museum content. Now, the Broo...