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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event. Sometimes that results in an artist-led cascading collaborative sculpture of 475 visitor-made scrap metal fish.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

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For some institutions, like the MCA Denver, attendance is seen as a very poor measure of impact. But for almost all museums (even MCA Denver), attendance is correlated with impact in some way. But does attendance demonstrate mission fulfillment? Unless your mission is "to engage X number of people," probably not.