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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Museum programs need to then actively respond to their communities through a variety of ongoing discursive, collaborative and inclusive formats that address needs and assets but also invite communities to be active participants in this process.

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

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The second half covers our work at the MAH (and by implication, at other "scrappy small museums") to collaborate with community members to co-create institutions for people of diverse backgrounds. The first half of the article covers high-priced events like adult sleepovers and Museum Hack tours at major urban museums.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Cornell I went to the intergenerational, national nonprofit called Magic Me. Most of the projects with these programs were carried out collaboratively; so I had a chance to see how different kinds of organizations, from grassroots to national, operate. It focused on collaborative e-learning.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

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We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. As we developed new 3rd Friday community festivals , we were careful to design them as intergenerational experiences. We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center.

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