This is a slightly altered version of a talk given about the book The Participatory Museum. This version includes examples from the Oakland Museum of California, the National Building Museum, and the Dutch Princessehof ceramics museum that are not in the other version of this slideshow.
3. traditionally, museums
are visitor-agnostic
✴ destinations
✴ trusted sources of information
✴ places for seeing and exploring
4. i’m interested in museums
that are visitor-centered
✴ destinations
✴ trusted sources of information
✴ places for seeing and exploring
5. i’m interested in museums
that are visitor-centered
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted sources of information
✴ places for seeing and exploring
6. i’m interested in museums
that are visitor-centered
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for seeing and exploring
7. i’m interested in museums
that are visitor-centered
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing
25. 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
26. how?
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing
27. there are many ways to participate
Stanford Art Center upper: chicago children’s museum Minnesota History Museum
lower: Science Museum of Minnesota
28. which techniques fit your mission?
Stanford Art Center upper: chicago children’s museum Minnesota History Museum
lower: Science Museum of Minnesota