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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). Museum programs can be designed to further bond similar groups together such as families and friends in family workshops such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s First Tuesdays.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

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For some institutions, like the MCA Denver, attendance is seen as a very poor measure of impact. But for almost all museums (even MCA Denver), attendance is correlated with impact in some way. But does attendance demonstrate mission fulfillment? Unless your mission is "to engage X number of people," probably not.