Museums
talk to strangers
One of the things we dislike most about museums is the bizarre combination of having hundreds of people in a room together and sharing an experience without hardly ever talking to each other. We aren’t the first to notice this, we know, and it’s not the first time someone’s tried to do something about it, but this warms our cold, goretex-shelled heart.
Nina Simon over at Museum 2.0 is sending some graduate students (isn’t it always graduate students) into the wild antisocial museum world with a mission: talk to and engage strangers. Her plan is threefold: talk to someone, get two people talking to each other, and make something that causes stranger interaction to occur.
Go help her out! We like this project so much we twittered it and blogged it. Whew!
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Yay! Now hopefully you’ll DO it, too! I’ll be test-driving with staff from the Denver Art Museum in a couple of weeks. Exciting!
Gah, I was going to do this the other day when I was at the Met. There was this lady taking pixx of the South American galleries and she had a better camera than I did, so I was all set to go up and introduce myself and politely ask that she email me a picture or two to be featured on-line . . . and then I got hit by a wave of seventh grade paranoia and I was sure that she’d roll her eyes and sigh audibly like Kate M—— did at that first dance in middle school. So I chickened out, but I’m going to talk to a stranger next time, I swears it.