place-making and museums

making a place for community engagement

nina simon, museum 2.0nina@museumtwo.com

@ninaksimon on twitter

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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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