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Place-Making and Museums
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making a place for community engagement
nina simon, museum [email protected]
@ninaksimon on twitter
slides at: http://bit.ly/TAMnina
my place
traditionally, museums are...
✴ destinations
✴ trusted sources of information
✴ places for seeing and exploring
i’m interested in museums that are...
✴ destinations
✴ trusted sources of information
✴ places for seeing and exploring
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing
why?
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing
photo by beagleskin on Flickr
photo by beagleskin on Flickras220 labs
how?
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing
less like this more like this
Photo by cybertoad on Flickr
Photo by Jessie Cutts on Flickr
Chicago History Museum Staff of Life grocery store
Worcester City Gallery and Museum
how?
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing
Science Museum of MinnesotaPhoto by Terry Gydesen
Advice, University of Washington
I’ve never had a gay friend. It was unbelievably exciting to find myself facing him with his body, opinions and identity. It seems he was not very different from me and especially he was not an alien. From now on, I will not disrupt my communication with the gays, I will enhance it.
- Reader in Istanbul, 2007
how?
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing
there are many ways to participate
Stanford Art Center upper: chicago children’s museumlower: Science Museum of Minnesota
Minnesota History Museum
Photo by Dimitry van den Berg
I like to think of museums as making history and art accessible to all; with photo restrictions, it can be an elite crowd. Imagine how a passion for art could be spread when someone, largely "ignorant" of art gets excited by a co-worker's pics and saves up and plans a trip to see a work, or works, that they would not otherwise see in their lifetime? And takes pics to send to their friends? Or someone who could never possibly afford to travel to great museums can live vicariously through a friend? This is making art accessible!
Roberta, world traveler
Princessehof
Princessehof
and one more thing...
continue the conversation...@ninaksimon
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