Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflection...

Last week on this blog, I tried an experiment . I wanted to open up conversation about how we judge the relative ethics of various sources...

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of t...

You open a children's book. You see a yellow dot. The text says "Press the yellow dot and turn the page." Suddenly there are...

When I was a teenager, I was enthralled by interactive fiction. I loved the idea of the web as an infinite landscape, with stories and poe...

I am fascinated by the incredible differences in what people contribute based on format and phrasing of the invitation to participate. This...

What happens when you let visitors vote on art? Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up ...

This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. This simple participatory project invites visitors to c...

Going to MAH and seeing the LOVE exhibition on First Friday was a wonderful experience. It made me think in ways that I haven't before ...

Imagine you want to invite people to meaningfully engage with a serious topic in an exhibition. How would you do it? What forms of conten...

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adu...

We’ve been doing a little experiment at our museum with labels. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum recently loaned us some fabulous surfboards th...