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Blueprint Book Club Part 1: How Do You Create a Future-Thinking History Museum?

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Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans.

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These 3 Types Of Nonprofits Spend The Most On Advertising According To This 2021 Study

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These three nonprofit types are: Performing Arts Companies, Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events, and Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions. Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions. Pella Historical Society and Museums. Let’s start with the highest median annual ad spend. .

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Join us for Museum Camp 2014 on Social Impact Assessment

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They are hinted at in fundraising letters. These are the questions that underpin Museum Camp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. They are stewing in our guts when we wake up to get to work.

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Balancing Engagement: Adventures in Participatory Exhibit Labels

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We’ve been doing a little experiment at our museum with labels. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum recently loaned us some fabulous surfboards that tell the co-mingled history of surfing and redwood trees in Santa Cruz. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

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Coming to AAM? Want to Meet People for Real Conversations on Issues that Matter Most to You?

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Last week, I was talking with some colleagues at my museum about the upcoming American Alliance of Museums conference and asked them what kinds of people they wanted to meet at AAM. Hint: you can do this even if you are not going to the conference.) That''s it. Tuesday at 1:45pm in the "I wish somebody had told me."

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Your Favorite Books about Museums and Exhibit Design?

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One of the surprise benefits of Saturday's Museums and Civic Discourse session was the chance to sit down with Mitch Allen of Left Coast Press (formerly AltaMira press), publisher of the Museums and Social Discourse journal among many, many other museum publications. To his credit, Mitch didn't take offense. Are We There Yet?

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Hack Your Hellos: the Unofficial Way to Meet Someone New at AAM This Year

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I''m getting ready for the American Alliance of Museums conference later this month. Hint: you can do this even if you are not going to the conference.) How can you tell if you want to go to "Museums and Communities" or "Museums and Social Issues" or "Museums and Very Cute Lizards"? That''s it.

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