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Dance and movementIn cultural institutions

Peter G. KalivasThe pgk project

Peter

Reinventing the Children’s zoo

Sheri shermanSan diego zoo

Sheri

Did you know that the San Diego Zoo

is an accredited museum?

We’re different than most museums in that the main features of our exhibits

eat, breathe, and poop!

Like all museums we want to engage the guests, teach them, and motivate them to action. We believe that ALL audiences want to have fun, but FUN is critical when kids are your target audience.

Animal Exhibits from small mini insects to large mini horses

The popular Petting Paddock allows kids a chance to feel the wooly coat of a sheep or comb a gentle goat’s hair.

Our Animal Nursery has large viewing windows to let you watch animal babies being bottle-fed or cuddled by our caring keepers.

Animal Ambassadors: About 45 of the 200 critters living in our Children’s Zoo are trained as animal ambassadors. These special animals come out to meet guests both in the Zoo and outside of the Zoo for special Educational Programs, where guests often get the opportunity to touch the animals and really experience them up close.

Dr. Zoolittle: The Children’s Zoo is where you’ll find our wacky resident scientist, Dr. Zoolittle, who delights audiences with zany science shows.

Animal themed events: At special times of the year the Children’s Zoo is host to special animal-themed events that include craft stations, up-close animal encounters, and more. There are a variety of gardens that are both educational and functional. And our famous racing pigeons are fun to watch as they fly overhead before returning to their Children’s Zoo roost.

Our goal is to make our exhibits even better. To make them fun, interactive, creatively diverse and accessible to all.

Your fresh eyes and unique ideas about what makes learning fun, what inspires children, and what motivates them to take action can help us do that.

Like most museums, we wish to create an ambiance, we have displays, models, signage, viewing / seating areas, multi-media and interactive elements.

Interactive outdoorsculptures

Nancy rennerSan diego natural history museum

Nancy

InterACTIVE Sculpture

Wave-form dance rail

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Collaborative sun catchers

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Fibonacci labyrinth

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Inspiration…

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self-identity and Participatory exhibitexperiences

Tara smithCalifornia center for the arts, escondido museum

Tara

YOU an Exhibition

YOU will focus on unraveling the daunting question of self identity. This exhibition will showcase works driven by the exploration of self and the human state that not only tackle likenesses of individuals but also the formation of their character and their different societies and cultures.

Interactive Component #1: YOUTalk

Intention: YOUTalk [A video recording booth] will serve as a site for conversation with museum guests on the subject of identity.

Bad Good

Bad Good

Q: What’s in the booth?

Guests will be encouraged to enter the booth individually and record a short video clip.

Q: What is the prompt(s)? And what is the method of presentation?

The Question/Prompt

Our hope is that this question will inspire each guest to share about themselves.

Q: What about people who don’t want to be on camera?

For those who want to participate, but

remain anonymous, masks will be

available inside the confessional booth.

Q: What will these masks look like…..

We don’t know?

Not Local? But Still Want to Join the Fun!

Q: What happens after the recording period is done?

YOUTalk Recording: Will run for five months.

Q: What will be in the gallery between editing and screening? Is there another way to use the booth? Or something completely different…

YOUTalk: Screening:This film will be projected for the

remainder of the exhibition.

YOUTalk,Q: More things to Consider

• How can we make YOUTalk accessible both through its aesthetics, construction, and content?

• How probing of a prompt question can we use so that we gain interesting feedback from our guests but not deter them because of heavy subject matter?

• Is there a way to make it possible for us to send every guest a segment their video clip?

• What do we want to know about our guests?

Interactive Idea #2:

YOU

YOU will include an array of interactive

components, each motivated by a different facet of

identity and the search for self, that will change on

a monthly basis.

Secret Letters Month

Postcards from YOU

Over the course of a month, the Museum will collect postcards from all over the country by posting a simple question on our blog and Dear Meat’s blog.

Q: What will make people want to do this? How can we encourage them to be excited about sending in their postcard?

Q: What is Dear Meat?http://dearmeat.me/

A: A blog where people write in to post random letters.

Example:Dear Cough Syrup,

You are a liar. You do not taste like cherries or any other fruit. be yourself.

-H

Q: So they have sent us post cards….Now what?

The postcards will be hung in our galleries. (Q: How?)

Q: How can I participate if I come to the Museum on a visit?

A large stack of San Diego postcards will be available for visiting museum guests so they can participate.

Q: What will the hanging system look like…. Hmmm not sure yet?

Secret Letters, Q: More things to consider

•What is the prompt/question we are asking people to write about? •What are other ways we can reach a larger audience? •How do we display the received postcards? •What are other organizations/people we can collaborate with?•How can we encourage people/get them excited to participate?•What do we want to know about our guests?

Thank YOU for listening!

Human arkive

Michael wallSan diego natural history museum

Michael

Collecting, the tendency to acquire and retain objects, even when they are not of immediate utility, is commonly seen among both children and adults, in modern as well as primitive societies.

- Anderson et al. 2004

* Please note that only selections of the permanent collection

are on view.

WHY?

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Source: http://www.dailygarnish.com/2011/03/afternoon-at-the-museum.html

Roman Ondák’s “Measuring The Universe”

365 Days of Music in Balboa Park

Denise MontgomerySan Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory

Denise

What audience experiences can bedeveloped inside museums and otherspaces to complement and deepenthe 365 Day Musical Landscape?

How can this be engaging ininteresting and memorable ways tomusicians and non-musicians?

How to use technology to build onthe experience…extend life of performances…reach a broader geographic range

of people…and more?

How can we engage high school

and college students, typically

passionate about music?

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