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How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance

Museum 2.0

But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. And finally, and perhaps most interestingly, here's a comparison of Jan-June 2011 vs Jan-June 2012.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

Summertime concerts at the history museum? But if you try to make meaning out of attendance comparisons across institutions, you start juggling apples and oranges. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. Louis count it. There''s quite a range. Those count.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

Was there anything helpful about that comparison between service engagement and impact? Typically, if you’re starting a pilot program and you do not have your own history of success. “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” Does that make sense?

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