Very interesting post by Ulla-Maaria Mutanen on her blog HobbyPrincess on museums and web 2.0:

“Some time ago Virtueel Platform organized a workshop called Take Away Museum to discuss new emerging ways to engage people in conversations with exhibited artwork and artifacts. The central question was: what is Web 2.0 for museums?”

In general there seem to be four basic ways for organizing the relationship between an exhibited artifact and a museum visitor: reactive consumption, proactive consumption, private production and public production.

“The transformation of museum visits from reactive consumption to public production is dramatic, and many museums still seem to consider how far they could and should go without risking museums as professional institutions of cultural and material history.”

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