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#WhyILoveMuseums: See the inspiring responses!

By Joseph O'Neill

March 13 was #WhyILoveMuseums Day, a social media movement started by Mar Dixon, a consultant who has led monthly hashtags for the cultural field from her @CultureThemes platform for almost a decade. Mar tells us that she founded …
The Mission-Driven Café: When doing the wrong thing is the right thing to do

By Larry Bain

Ask most museum directors, restaurant consultants, and other knowledgeable folks and they will tell you: “Hire an outside food-service company to run your café.” Well, that makes perfect sense—that is what most museums choose to do. The …
Don Wildman: Why does the Museum of Science & Industry look the way it does?

By Don Wildman

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Corporate, Culture? One Part Education, One Part Sales: This is the Corporation Museum.

By Joelle Seligson

This article originally appeared in the November/December 2010 edition of the Museum magazine. Straddle a Harley-Davidson after touring a century of motorcycle history. Hop into the “bunny suit” Intel technicians wear to craft …

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