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

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

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

Learning through Teaching

• 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

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

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 museums 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:

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