See ya (but not goodbye) Denver Community Museum

Jaime Kopke's 7 month, uber-community, uber-participatory museum experiment has ended. She's going to London to pursue a Masters in Design Curating. However, the museum is not gone- the DCM is collaborating with the new San Francisco Mobile Museum (disclosure: a project of mine).

The exhibit is a dual city community sharing project about place. We asked @ 15 people in each city, of all ages and abilities to participate. They were given a fixed size box to work within, and the results have been amazing, funny, and delightful.

It opens in Denver this weekend, and moves about the city during the next 6 weeks. It will open in the Bay Area in August, exact dates TBD.

Denver Community Museum: a case study in pictures

A while back I wrote a posting about the idea of the Denver Community Museum. Recently, I went to see it in person, and met with founder Jaime Kopke. I figured seeing it would be better than writing about it, so below are highlights in a "how to" format (in the hopes that it will serve as a point of inspiration). A more in-depth interview will be posted in coming weeks. For me, this had to be one of the most inspirational museum visits of 2008, and reinforced that easy-to-remember-not-always-easy-to-follow mantra K.I.S.S.: