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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

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I used to think these were easy questions to answer. I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. Engagement with local artists.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Museum programs can also bridge different groups that might not typically interact such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s Educational Residential Centre, which designed a program specifically to bridge children of two groups engaged in social conflict, Catholics and Protestants.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This is a question I'm really interested in.

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Guest Post: Using Participation to Solve a Design Problem at the Carnegie Museum of Art

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I'm on the road this week, with speaking gigs in Oslo, Denver, Charlotte, and Roanoke (join the NAMP livestream on Sunday at 9:25am PT here ). How about break it down for younger children?" Smartphone images didn't read well given the limitations of screen size and the legibility of the artists' writings and drawings.

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100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try in 2021 and Beyond

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But one question you might find yourself frequently asking is “What kind of fundraising event should we host next?”. Not only will they enjoy competing to answer the most trivia questions, but they’ll also be fundraising on behalf of your organization. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area?

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