A presentation for staff and friends at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake on the complexities of building relationships between humans and institutions. First shared by Nina Simon of Museum 2.0 on 15 March, 2011

1. building relationships
with museums
nina@museumtwo.com slides at http://wildcenter.pbworks.com

2. where i live

3. what i do
balboa park online collaborative
boston children’s museum
chabot space science center
chicago history museum
denver art museum
experience music project
girls math and science partnership
international spy museum
minneapolis institute of art
minnesota history center
monterey bay aquarium
oakland museum of california
SFMOMA
smithsonian museum of natural history
statens museum for kunst
tech museum of innovation

7. places for
relationships are...

8. less like this more like this
Photo by cybertoad on Flickr

9. photo by beagleskin on Flickr

10. photo by beagleskin on Flickr
as220 labs

11. Authority is content provider

12. Authority is content provider Authority is platform provider

13. places for
relationships are
personal

15. Photo by Jessie Cutts on Flickr

16. Oakland Museum of California

17. places for
relationships are
social

18. Science Museum of Minnesota
Photo by Terry Gydesen

21. 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

22. places for
relationships are
multi-platform

23. pearls on a string
local event
social network
museum visit
text message
educational program
website

26. Green materials (ceramic, found objects, recycled materials, etc.)
+ Geocaching (GPS-based game) = Traveling sculptures

27. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/textiles/lawty/world_beach/

28. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/textiles/lawty/world_beach/

29. http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/textiles/lawty/world_beach/

30. places for
relationships are
mission-driven

31. there are many ways to support relationships
Stanford Art Center upper: chicago children’s museum Minnesota History Museum
lower: Science Museum of Minnesota

32. which techniques fit your mission?
Stanford Art Center upper: chicago children’s museum Minnesota History Museum
lower: Science Museum of Minnesota

33. The mission of The New York
Public Library is to inspire lifelong
learning, advance knowledge, and
strengthen our communities.

34. Jessica Pigza
Rare book librarian

35. Jessica Pigza
Rare book librarian
Josh Greenberg
Director of Digital Strategy
& Scholarship

36. blog
http://www.nypl.org/blog_series/hand-made

37. blog

38. blog

39. video
http://www.nypl.org/av_display/series/47883

40. video
http://www.nypl.org/av_display/series/47883

41. video

42. Photos by Shira Kronzon on Flickr

43. Photo by Shira Kronzon on Flickr

44. “My boss knows that I find this to be very
satisfying, but he also recognizes that it’s a
good thing for the institution in general. He
is one of the people who recognizes the
connection between handicraft and history
and rare books.”

45. “My boss knows that I find this to be very
satisfying, but he also recognizes that it’s a
good thing for the institution in general. He
is one of the people who recognizes the
connection between handicraft and history
and rare books.”
inspire lifelong learning
advance knowledge
strengthen our communities

46. Building relationships
with visitors
nina@museumtwo.com slides at http://wildcenter.pbworks.com