The book 'The Participatory Museum' is a practical guide to working with communities and visitors to make cultural institutions increasingly dynamic, more relevant, and essential entities and places in cultural landscapes and landscaping.
It was written by Nina Simon who is a movement builder, former museum director, and the best-selling author of The Art of Relevance and the Museum 2.0 blog.
In the time since The Participatory Museum was published in 2010, over 40,000 people have bought her book, and another 200,000+ have read the online version available for free on this site.
The Participatory Museum has been described as a “future classic of museology,” an “indispensable guide,” and this thinking is on the money. Plus it is simply just a good read.
The book can be read for free online here, or a hardcopy can be purchased and it is available as an ebook. For its own reason the QVMAG refuses to stock this book in its shop but that is understandable in a musingplace where status quoism underwrites the salaries of its management and functionaries.
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| CLICK HERE TO WATCH ... Here Nina shares some of the key points colonial musingplaces find an anathema |
Participation in the museum sector has become a buzzword, used at such a high frequency that it can oftentimes be misunderstood amongst museum professionals or, in some cases, so that it becomes meaningless from overuse. When talking about participation, it is essential to discuss the theoretical aspects of what participation is, what it can be and/or what it should be, as well as how these participatory practices are grounded in practice; in other words, what are the theories of participation and how are these theories employed in museum practice? ... Nina Simon is our go-to model for what participation in the museum ... Click here to continue reading
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