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An Arts & Cultural Professional’s Guide to bbcon 2022 Virtual

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While there are dozens of sessions designed to pique anyone’s interest, we wanted to highlight some specifically created for the arts and culture audience. Super Session: Cultural Organizations as Community Connectors—How to Promote Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion. Monday, October 17, 1:00-2:00 pm ET.

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Turning Visitors into Customers: Maximising Retail Potential for Museums

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Museum shops can and should be more than just walls of collection postcards and bins of branded pencils. With captive audiences, a link to the creative, and consistent footfall, shops in museums have ample opportunity to maximise retail potential by offering products that appeal to visitors and have a clear connection to collections. .

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What Is the Future of Virtual Membership?

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How many cultural organizations were actively prioritizing digital benefits and digital access in membership? With the first wave of lockdowns in Spring 2020, the primary value proposition of membership vanished overnight, and closures caused many museums to reinvent their benefits and programming in digital formats.

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Content Strategy for Digital Collections: Archives, Libraries, and Museums

Forum One

Museums, archives, and libraries share many goals and functions. Their mandate is to exhibit and preserve the collection of the best assets that represent the story and chronology of a culture or a society. The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. What does your collection represent?

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Why do we keep working in museums?

Museum 2.0

I’ve been asking myself this question for months. TL;DR A lot of really shitty people hate museums and hate that museums would even attempt social justice therefore museums are okay, maybe. For what it’s worth I think the subtext of this question is great. I read this post by Jeremy Munro, and it hit me hard.

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Doing Museum Work: Your Thoughts

Museum 2.0

This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums. I'd ask questions on Twitter before. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Sharing articles that work is a great reason to stay on Museum Twitter by the way.

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One Mom’s Tips for Arts & Cultural Organizations

Connection Cafe

As I think about arts & cultural institutions, I realize that my family is an ideal target for these organizations. What does our consumption of arts & cultural organizations look like? For performing arts, maybe something as simple as adding a reminder to my calendar on the day and time tickets go on sale.

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