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About a year ago, the DallasMuseum of Art did something truly innovative. The museum’s memberships have tripled in the past year. DallasMuseum of Art has taken the concept of website and email marketing metrics and made them analogue. The museum has taken Web 2.0 How did they pull it off?
A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.
This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience.
The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Texas Instruments Foundation supports arts programs that help make Dallas a vibrant place to live and work. Areas served: Dallas/Texas. Areas served: Houston/Texas. Woodruff Foundation.
Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. David describes himself as a "museum brat."
Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.
Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. Over the past 15 years, Allen has volunteered for small elementary schools to major museums and nonprofits raising millions of dollars. Komen for the Cure, The Museum of Flight, March of Dimes, Lakeside School, Evergreen Health, and more.
The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Texas Instruments Foundation supports arts programs that help make Dallas a vibrant place to live and work. Areas served: Dallas/Texas. Areas served: Houston/Texas. Woodruff Foundation.
The DallasMuseum. museum, expanding access to the mobile tours even further. Museum of African American History's mobile web app likewise runs on most mobile devices with a web browser. Unlike a native app, a mobile web app is "device agnostic," meaning it can be. They also have some. The DuSable.
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to give one of the closing talks at the Theater Communications Group annual conference in Dallas. TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. When I came to the museum in May of 2011, we were on the brink of closure financially. They looked junky.
Maybe it's a live music concert, or a museum visit, or a play. Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. Some of the most successful museum programs I know of that draw people again and again happen on a regular schedule.
Fort Worth Zoo visitors check out exhibits online, virtual video conference | The Republic : The answer for Dorris came by investing in much-needed technology and joining Connect 2 Texas, a network of museums and scientific nonprofit organizations that provide lessons via video conferencing for a relatively modest fee.
In that early test period, the site collected 50,000 photos–half from organizations like museums and libraries and half by about 20,000 individuals. Among the organizations that have worked on the site are PhillyHistory.org, the New York Public Library, the Dallas Public Library, and the Los Angeles Public Library.".
culture might affect museums. The true story is that I desperately wanted to find a way to engage in discussions with some of my museum heroes. Kathy McLean is one of my heroes who motivated the start of Museum 2.0, And that's true. but it's not the whole story. I am shy in large groups.
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I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.
It's packed with practical theories, rags-to-relevance case studies, and inspiring stories from museums and libraries, theaters and parks, dance companies and orchestras, afterschool programs and activists, churches and synagogues. My last book, The Participatory Museum , did well. I am truly thrilled to share this book with you.
The study specifically excluded institutions without employees, museums, religious institutions, hospitals, and membership organizations to focus on traditional higher education institutions like Harvard, NYU, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and others. people, representing a significant economic impact.
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