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Beyond Digital: Open Collections and Cultural Institutions, Part 2

Posted on November 18, 2014 by

This is part two of two posts about my experiences at the Beautiful Data: Telling Stories with Open Collections workshop at Harvard University’s metaLAB. Read part one here. When my teen program started up again this fall, I brought my … Continue reading →

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Beyond Digital: Open Collections and Cultural Institutions, Part 1

Posted on November 11, 2014 by

This is part one of two posts about my experiences at the Beautiful Data: Telling Stories with Open Collections workshop at Harvard University’s metaLAB. This past June, I participated in a two-week workshop at Harvard University’s metaLAB called Beautiful Data: … Continue reading →

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Ask a Curator Day 2014 Recap

Posted on October 28, 2014 by

Back in September, the Milwaukee Art Museum participated in International Ask a Curator Day, an online initiative started in 2010 in the UK. The idea? Use social media to open up conversations between visitors and museum staff. This year’s Ask … Continue reading →

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Teen Voices in the Museum

Posted on May 6, 2014 by

Teen programs provide a very different kind of opportunity for museums to experiment with interpretation. Because many teens participate in multiple programs for extended lengths of time, they become advocates and resources for our museums and collections. Here at the … Continue reading →

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