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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. I chose to focus my thesis on Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

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We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. They talked about community building. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. WHO (slides 3-23) "Community” is not an abstraction.

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

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The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community. We changed our museum by reorienting on our community and really saying we exist to be of, by and for you, and to help build a stronger community.” The impact was dramatic.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

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It does not include facility rentals, nor people who might see us at a community event but not directly engage. Why do we count participants in an art activity for families at a community center but not members of the Rotary Club to whom I give a presentation about the museum? What''s missing from this picture? as part of a meeting)?