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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

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This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I''ve long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Louis Science Center. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. blog posts from the past.

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What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I've long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Louis Science Center. Diane is both visionary and no-nonsense about deconstructing the barriers that many low-income and non-white teenagers and families face when entering a museum.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? This summer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts.