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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Museum programs can also bridge different groups that might not typically interact such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s Educational Residential Centre, which designed a program specifically to bridge children of two groups engaged in social conflict, Catholics and Protestants.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

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Third, museums as a "place to be heard"--to share your voice, your stories, your interpretation. It's only been open for a few weeks, and they already have lots of visitors sharing stories, making and sharing art, and adding their voice to the exhibitions. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences.

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