Creating a Social Impact Statement for the Global Museum

Inspired by the Social Work of Museums, and the Oakland Museum of California's Social Impact Statements, students worked to identify issues in the SFSU and San Francisco community, ways the Global Museum could address them, and ultimately Social Impact Statements for the Museum.

The final Social Impact Statements were:
The Global Museum makes SFSU a more informed, empathetic, and empowered community.
The Global Museum combats loneliness and creates community by making the SFSU campus a more empathetic place.

Audience Interactive Prototype--Engagement Table

This interactive would expand some of the inquiry in the currently planned engagement table in the exhibition.

Audience Interactive Prototype--Make a Sticker!

In this prototype, visitors would make a sticker inspired by their visit, use the hashtag and post!

Audience Interactive Protoype--Piecing it Together

A puzzle and activity guessing game!

Audience Interactive Example--Treasure hunt!

Audience Interactive Prototype--What do you want to see more of?

This interactive would allow visitors to share what they wanted to see more of in the museum, in terms of region of origin.

Audience Interactive Prototypes--A/B testing interactive

This interactive involved some A/B testing around how museum visitors to engage with objects related to their own life and whether anything surprised them in the museum. Museum staff or students could determine which question was more successful based upon the number resposnes.

Informal learning

The next group addressed the need for informal learning. Their problem statement:

MS grad students need a way to get informal learning and intellectual growth to get experiences that build professional skills and memories.

Their solution, a resource board complete with digital, social and analog resources intended to connect students to a range of opportunities.

Second year MS student

One group focused on second year MS students. Their problem statement:

Second year MS students need specific classes tailored to their interests because the MS program is limited in courses offered.

They brainstormed and prototyped a free workshop with certificate that could be offered in conservation.

Design Thinking

On February 27, students tackled the design challenge:

How might the Global Museum at SFSU provide a valuable resource to SFSU Museum Studies graduate students?