What is the museum's place in the 21st century? This short talk, offered as a keynote at the 2010 Texas Association of Museums conference, explores the potential for museums to become everyday places for making, sharing, and connecting with fellow community-members. Presented by Nina Simon of Museum 2.0.

1. making a place for
community engagement
nina simon, museum 2.0
nina@museumtwo.com
@ninaksimon on twitter
slides at: http://bit.ly/TAMnina

2. my place

3. traditionally, museums are...
✴ destinations
✴ trusted sources of information
✴ places for seeing and exploring

4. i’m interested in museums that are...
✴ destinations
places for everyday use
✴ trusted sources of information
hosts for social experiences
✴ places for seeing and exploring
making and sharing

5. why?
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing

6. photo by beagleskin on Flickr

7. photo by beagleskin on Flickr
as220 labs

9. how?
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing

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

11. Photo by Jessie Cutts on Flickr

12. Chicago History Museum Staff of Life grocery store

13. Worcester City Gallery and Museum

14. how?
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing

15. Science Museum of Minnesota
Photo by Terry Gydesen

16. Advice, University of Washington

17. 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

18. how?
✴ places for everyday use
✴ trusted hosts for social experiences
✴ places for making and sharing

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

20. Photo by Dimitry van den Berg

21. 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

22. Princessehof

24. Princessehof

25. and one more thing...

27. continue the conversation...
@ninaksimon
http://bit.ly/TAMnina nina@museumtwo.com