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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Sometimes we purposefully bridge distinct groups as well such as middle-aged women from local knitting groups with young college students interested in street art to yarn bomb our stairwell for Radical Craft Night. We are constantly looking for new meaningful opportunities to bridge groups and individuals in our programs.

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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.