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

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She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. The impact was dramatic. Within three years, attendance tripled.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

That something may be a place, an identity, an interest, a worldview. In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers.

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