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The Event-Driven Museum, One Year Later

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A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.

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Cool App Roundup: Arts Organization Edition

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project will focus on apps for arts organizations, with a practical. We'll share some interesting apps developed for arts. Discovering Public Art with Public Art Omaha. engage with public art? engage with public art? The really cool thing is how Public Art Omaha did it: their public art.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Gender Differences in Participation: The Pocket Museum Example

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This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience.

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Memo from the Revolution: Six Things I've Learned from our Institutional Transformation

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This past weekend, I had the opportunity to give one of the closing talks at the Theater Communications Group annual conference in Dallas. TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. When I came to the museum in May of 2011, we were on the brink of closure financially. They looked junky.

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Fort Worth Zoo visitors check out exhibits online, virtual video conference | The Republic

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Fort Worth Zoo visitors check out exhibits online, virtual video conference | The Republic : The answer for Dorris came by investing in much-needed technology and joining Connect 2 Texas, a network of museums and scientific nonprofit organizations that provide lessons via video conferencing for a relatively modest fee.

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Is There a Formula for Free Admission?

Museum 2.0

There are plenty of great arguments out there for WHY to make museums free. It''s much easier for art and history museums than for those museums that rely on admissions for a majority of their income (science, children''s). Nationally, admissions income generates only 1-4% of most art museums'' annual revenue.

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