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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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The Denver Art Museum has been leading the way with dynamic programs such as Untitled , which offers a variety of non-traditional encounters with art and the museum through participatory, multidisciplinary activities led by Denver’s creative community.

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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.