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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. The MAH’s historic Evergreen Cemetery brings together the Homeless Services Center and MAH volunteers or the local rugby team to collaboratively restore the cemetery. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Eight Other Ways to "Connect with Community"

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The homeless community? The Denver Community Museum was an entire institution in a little storefront. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. Pick a specific community (or two). Don't say that your institution will be a "town square for the community." Which community? The Filipino community? The student community?