Do you visit museums?
If you’re like the majority of the public then then answer will be ” sometimes”.
But what is it that stops people going more often or from trying out new or different museums?
According to a Mori poll its because there’s “nothing of particlular interest to see”. A massive 41 % of those polled expressed this as their reason for not attending – but the paradox is obvious.
How can people know there’s nothing for them in the museum if they don’t know what’s there?
VOTE for this project here.
It’s the same dilemma that newspapers face when they undertake market research – how do know you don’t like the product if you’ve never tried it?
And so the Comunity as Curator project was born. We saw it as a way of using digital technologies to disrupt an online communities’ everyday search and share activity in order to expose the user to museum content they wouldn’t otherwise experience.
Since the crowdsourcing of the idea I carried out on this blog back in August, this project has caught the imagination of many.
Although quite an involved concept, applying some Web 2.0 thinking into the public engagement of museums seems to make sense to today’s online audiences.
The emails and tweets I received certainly helped shape the final bid which went forward to Manchester Beacon’s Mapping Creativity competition.
Community as Curator has now progressed to within a heartbeat of actually winning the £25k commission to see it become a reality.
And that’s why myself, and the rest of the team behind this bid, need your votes.
Have a look at the summary of the project here and see if you can give it your support. Votes are cast by clicking on the stars at the top of the page.
Alternatively, please leave a comment (you need to be registered to do this).
Whether or not museums are your passion, if you are interested in the democratisation of public institutions using digital tools, then this project could establish a model which could be applied to other areas.
So VOTE, please!
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