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.

1. A DISCUSSION WITH NINA SIMON
nina@museumtwo.com @ninaksimon on twitter slides at http://bit.ly/ninabook1

2. Hi.
My name is Nina,
and I want to
change museums.

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

8. Authority is content provider

9. Authority is content provider Authority is platform provider

10. a participatory institution is
a place where visitors can
create, share, and connect
with each other around
content.

12. photo by beagleskin on Flickr

13. photo by beagleskin on Flickr
as220 labs

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

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

16. Oakland Museum of California

17. Oakland Museum of California
Oakland Museum of California
Investigating Where We Live, National Building Museum

18. Worcester City Gallery and Museum

19. Worcester City Gallery and Museum

20. Worcester City Gallery and Museum

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

22. Science Museum of Minnesota
Photo by Terry Gydesen

23. Advice, University of Washington

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

29. Princessehof

31. Princessehof

32. A DISCUSSION WITH NINA SIMON
nina@museumtwo.com @ninaksimon on twitter slides at http://bit.ly/ninabook1