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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

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4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. The Field Museum Store offers gifts for those interested in science and cultural, natural, and human history. 18) NPR Shop :: shop.npr.org.

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TechSoup Canada Art Installation

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My favorite-thing-of-the-week award goes to Toronto artist Gil Martinez for this art installation he designed to help celebrate the launch of TechSoup Canada. TechSoup/CompuMentor's 22-year history is documented through four mixed-media panels and one large mural. read more.

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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

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One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Executive Director Nina Simon, who was hired in 2011, says that in the years following the global financial crisis, the facility was struggling. “At The plaza serves as a kind of front porch to the museum, ushering visitors old and new.

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Want to Work at the MAH? Two New Jobs Building Community & Social Change

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The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. Both these people will lead innovative work to build community locally and globally. We especially encourage people to apply who have experience feeling excluded or disconnected from the arts.

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

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Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. This is an epic moment in the history of education, who wouldn’t want to be part of it? the way the best museums do.

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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

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ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. Showing that their voice matters.

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