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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Deeper community relationships through focus groups or community advising committees can further help museums connect with issues relevant to their communities while also hold the museum accountable for their responses. This can be accomplished through a variety of feedback methods conducted both inside and outside the museum.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

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Tourists can’t help us build community in Santa Cruz County if they are only in town for a day. Focusing local helps us define our community by identity. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. We are unapologetic about focusing local. And so on.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

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We ignited science and technology learning this year through ongoing exhibits, educational programs, outreach in the community, and online interactions, which reached 3 million people.