A Day in the Park

As mentioned, this weekend began San Francisco Open Studios month. We at the Mobile Museum attempted to situate ourselves in the center of Weekend 1 at Dolores Park. It was a beautiful day and the park was full.

Having our exhibit Looking for Loci - a collection of shadow-box style dioramas and their stories - outdoors was interesting. The contrast of the great outdoors to tiny intimate stories was something we weren't sure about.


We set up the Museum in the round. Visitors carefully circled; reading, looking, and then writing about their own Genius Loci on the Bay Area map. Sometimes the notes were sweet, sometimes snarky (more about the map later), but all were welcome:


Seems that the experiment worked, and worked well. We got to witness the delight of many visitors as they read stories, called in and listened to Nina Simon's box that has an audio tour, or laughed about Rebecca Grey's refrigerator (more about those soon).


Participant Chris Luomanen dubbed us the "museum version of the food cart". Not sure we're quite THAT mobile. Chris has some typically smart musings about the SF food cart scene here:

http://thing-tank.blogspot.com/2009/10/recession-foodies-twitter-food-cart.html

Weather permitting, we'll move the museum to the center of the next Open Studios. Come find us - or follow us on twitter @sfmobilemuseum.