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

Two weeks ago, my museum was featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Ellen Gamerman, Everybody's a Curator . I'm thrilled tha...

Image courtesy Museum Quality Dance . Photo by Carrie Meyer . Scene: a regional workshop on arts engagement. A funder is speaking with c...

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily suppor...

"The words we use in attempting to change museum directions matter. We need translators within each cultural context. We do not yet ...

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to give one of the closing talks at the Theater Communications Group annual conference in Dalla...

I'm just home from a whirlwind of speaking engagements--Oslo, Denver, Charlotte, Roanoke. So it seems fitting to share my TEDx talk th...

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" based on Tim O'Reilly...

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian's excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. I've...

For three years, I've been using a "hierarchy of participation" diagram to talk about the ways that cultural institutions and...

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. The end of a conference is often a time of great enthus...

Pop quiz! Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the dev...

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. It happened at 7:45 in the morning, and I know t...