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Maximizing Your Membership Program: Tips from the Experts

Connection Cafe

I had the opportunity to attend the Association of Children’s Museums annual conference: InterActivity 2016. As I sat in a session, Membership from Here to There and Everywhere In Between, I had a realization: No one is better at managing membership programs than children’s museums. Myrna Llaguno, Miami Children’s Museum.

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

Museum 2.0

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. The Odditoreum is another wrinkle in the study of visitors' understanding and interpretation of authenticity in museums. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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Kid-Tested, Hipster-Approved: How Austin’s Thinkery Curated a Whole New Audience.

Connection Cafe

It’s safe to say this town is up there trending with those other ‘cool hipster’ cities like Brooklyn and Portland. Well, in some pretty big ways if you talk to the team at Thinkery , who just created Thinkery21 , an evening of fun created just for this demographic. How can you explore doing something similar at your museum?