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		<title>Creating Trustville &#8211; A museum as community centre for cultural and social development and activity</title>
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This is an article I wrote for the (recently launched) project Creating Trustville. This project is a place for ideation of new social structures and the conceptualisation of the institutions of the future, started by Vandejong.

What is a museum?
Over the course of history museums have had to reinvent themselves a couple of times. Once they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2010/07/04/creating-trustville-a-museum-as-community-centre-for-cultural-and-social-development-and-activity/</link>
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		<title>7 lessons about storytelling and museums – Wrap up of the Kom Je Ook? 5 conference</title>
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Today was the fifth edition of Mediamatic’s Kom Je Ook? conference.* Today’s topic was storytelling. Storytelling seems to be hot. As some of the speakers at today’s conference pointed out today, however, it’s nothing new. Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Iliad used to be told as stories. That’s a long time ago. Storytelling once was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2010/06/01/7-lessons-about-storytelling-and-museums-%e2%80%93-wrap-up-of-the-kom-je-ook-5-conference/</link>
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		<title>The National Vending Machine &#8211; Building a community of objects</title>
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An automatiek type vending machine, or trekmuur – “pull wall” – as we call it in Dutch, is a traditional piece of robust technology used to sell deep-fried snacks. Many visitors to Holland might have seen it, especially late at night when they’re popular places to get something to eat.
Over the last years some machines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2010/05/27/the-national-vending-machine-building-a-community-of-objects/</link>
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		<title>Nieuwe Groeten Uit&#8230; A crowd-sourced and crowd-curated exposition</title>
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Nieuwe groeten uit… (“New greetings from…”) is a crowd-sourced, crowd-curated exposition in the city of Arnhem in the east of the Netherlands. Last Thursday my museum opened the last part of the yearlong project. In many ways it’s a special exposition and project, I think, and worth sharing.
Somewhat over a year ago FOAM photography museum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2010/05/24/nieuwe-groeten-uit-a-crowd-sourced-and-crowd-curated-exposition/</link>
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		<title>10 things I learned about new media, technology and innovation in museums in the last year</title>
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Photo from the Flickr Commons (Field Museum Library)
I&#8217;m relatively new to museums. Apart from a short intermezzo in an ecomuseum, the last year has been my only year within the walls of a museum. I do new media and technology. We do a lot of innovation. This is what I learned last year.


Work together
There&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2010/05/16/10-things-i-learned-about-new-media-technology-and-innovation-in-museums-in-the-last-year/</link>
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		<title>5 examples of inspiring and unusual use of stairs and escalators</title>
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Photo by Thomas Hawk on Flickr
Last weekend I worked on a project idea involving the creative use of stairs in a museum. Stairs and escalators are often not more than a connection between two galleries. There is, however, so much more you can do with them. Stairs and escalators are an amazing place to use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2010/05/10/5-examples-of-inspiring-and-unusual-use-of-stairs-and-escalators/</link>
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		<title>Mobile media for cultural and historical heritage, guidelines and pilot projects</title>
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How can we use mobile media to engage people in cultural and historical heritage? Last week I co-hosted a hands-on expert meeting dealing with this subject. Our objective: to find one or two pilot solutions that we can develop already.
The meeting followed on the post-MW2010 unconference about mobile games for museums I wrote about two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2010/05/02/mobile-media-for-cultural-and-historical-heritage-guidelines-and-pilot-projects/</link>
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		<title>Building a community in 11 steps &#8211; Stranded Europeans</title>
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Everybody’s talking about community building these days. Often we forget how easy it is (can be) and how frequently it happens. A volcano, some stranded Europeans and Denver. This is how you build a community:

Get a bunch of people together with more or less similar values. 
E.g. museum professionals working on participation.
Urge them to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2010/04/22/building-a-community-in-11-steps-stranded-europeans/</link>
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		<title>Mobile games and museums, wrap up of post-MW2010 unconference session</title>
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Although the most popular location based mobile games, Foursquare and Gowalla, still have limited user bases, their potential is huge. At the moment, Facebook has over 100 million mobile users, a number that is growing with the second.
As a part of the official post-MW2010 programme, Paul Stork and I hosted an unconference session about mobile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2010/04/20/mobile-games-and-museums-wrap-up-of-post-mw2010-unconference-session/</link>
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		<title>Spinny Bars Historical Society &#8211; new media with a twist</title>
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A lot of great thing came out of Museum and the Web 2010. I’ll be blogging about some of them over the next week (as I’m stranded in Denver due to #ashtag). One of the best, without a doubt, was the Spinny Bars Historical Society, or SBHS.

I first came into contact with the SBHS when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themuseumofthefuture.com/2010/04/18/spinny-bars-historical-society-new-media-with-a-twis/</link>
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