The Museum as Agora Presentation to the 2009 Webwise Conference, Washington DC Nancy Proctor, Smithsonian American Art Museum [email_address] 26 February 2009 Identity and collaboration in the 21st century museum

What is collaboration in the Museum 2.0?

What is the Museum in this Web 2.0 world of information on demand? Whatever Whenever Wherever

Whatever

Whenever

Wherever

Save Outdoor Sculpture! http://maps.google.com/ User-created content: Save Outdoor Sculpture!

Artful Abe http://AmericanArt.si.edu/ArtfulAbe

Fill the Gap http://www.flickr.com/photos/americanartmuseum/sets/

1934 and Picturing the 1930s http://www.flickr.com/groups/1934

Wikipedia Loves Art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Art

The Handheld Wiki http://MuseumMobile.info/wiki

The Museum in Dialogue http://SmartHistory.org

http://SmartHistory.org

Curators in Conversation http://AmericanArt.si.edu/Podcasts

Learning through Teaching http://americanart.si.edu/education/activities/podcasts/

http://americanart.si.edu/education/activities/podcasts/

The Museum in Play http://GhostsofaChance.com/

Happiness Time spent with people we like The chance to be a part of something bigger Satisfying work to do The experience of being good at something – JANE M C GONIGAL, PhD Institute for the Future Hosted by the AAM Center for the Future of Museums, December 2, 2008, at the Newseum, Washington, DC http://www.slideshare.net/avantgame/gaming-the-future-of-museums-a-lecture-by-jane-mcgonigal-presentation?nocache=4592

Time spent with people we like

The chance to be a part of something bigger

Satisfying work to do

The experience of being good at something

What is collaboration?

Collaboration means: Communities & sharing Dialogue & storytelling Integration & relevance Trust & working interactively Fun & happiness Not being stingy! Rethinking resource allocation Managing IP rights & brands Being willing to take risks & fail Re-evaluating quality vs quantity

Communities & sharing

Dialogue & storytelling

Integration & relevance

Trust & working interactively

Fun & happiness

Not being stingy!

Rethinking resource allocation

Managing IP rights & brands

Being willing to take risks & fail

Re-evaluating quality vs quantity

What is the Museum? http://Smithsonian20.si.edu

The American Art Museum

The Museums… The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery

The Museum has become a Distributed Network

Photo by Mike Lee, 2007; from SAAM Flickr Group Our audiences now access American Art through a wide range of platforms beyond the museum’s walls and website

The Museum is transforming from Acropolis…

… into Agora

Nancy Proctor, [email_address] . edu 9 December 2008 Collaboration with other institutions Collaboration with third parties Collaboration with our audiences The Museum as Agora is an inherently collaborative space:

Collaboration with other institutions

Collaboration with third parties

Collaboration with our audiences

“ Where obstacles become opportunities to play!” Colleen Macklin, PETLab, Parsons School of Design Luce Foundation Center, SAAM

Nancy Proctor, PhD Head of New Media Smithsonian American Art Museum [email_address] AmericanArt.si.edu