The document discusses the changing role of museums in the digital age. It describes how museums are becoming more collaborative spaces through various online initiatives that engage audiences. These initiatives include user-generated content on sites like Flickr, Wikipedia projects, mobile apps, podcasts, and games. The museum is transforming from a traditional "Acropolis" model to a more open "Agora" model that facilitates collaboration with other institutions, partners, and audiences.

1. 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

2. What is collaboration in the Museum 2.0?

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

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

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

7. 1934 and Picturing the 1930s http://www.flickr.com/groups/1934

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

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

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

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

15. What is collaboration?

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

18. The American Art Museum

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

20. The Museum has become a Distributed Network

21. 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

22. The Museum is transforming from Acropolis…

23. … into Agora

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

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