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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. Putnam and other researchers have collected lots of data demonstrating that in the past 50 years in America, bonding has increased and bridging has decreased. We're a place you can work off your traffic ticket.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

Internal to an individual museum, relative attendance--changes over time or program--can yield useful information. But does attendance demonstrate mission fulfillment? Looking at it in this way would also allow institutions to expand beyond reductive "all about attendance" approaches to demonstrating impact.