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Audience Research and Evaluation
Empathy Interventions: Mia Experiments with Cultivating Empathy in Museum Visitors
Can the visual arts foster empathy and understanding? From our experiences as art museum educators, we believe they can, but there is little empirical research to support this theory. So, …
Social Media Benchmarking: Evaluation Projects in Action at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Watch this recorded webinar in which the Cleveland Museum of Art shares how they undertook a dedicated exploration into new metrics for social media benchmarking upon the museum’s temporary …
Essential Evaluators: Answering COVID Questions
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …
Using Local Data to More Fully Understand the Visitor Experience During COVID
At Thanksgiving Point Institute—a farm, garden, and museum complex in Lehi, Utah—we’ve been wondering how visitor agendas are changing during the current health crisis. Understanding …
Essential Evaluators: Let’s Keep Unlearning
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …
Measuring the Social Impact of Museums
At this pivotal time in history, advocating for museums, their staff, and their collections is more important than ever. To do that successfully, though, we need to be able to demonstrate …
Evaluating the Impact of Augmented and Virtual Reality
“I am perfectly astonished at the effect.” “The thrilling scenes therein depicted are beyond description.” “It is true and really wonderful.” These are reactions from visitors to the …
Essential Evaluators: Digital Storytelling
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …
Essential Evaluators: Snapshot | Data Decisions
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …
Essential Evaluators: What’s in Your Soup?
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …
Curiosity: A Primer
In the museum field, we sometimes talk about how we are in the “curiosity business.” Yet even still, it often feels that our field perceives nurturing curiosity as …
Essential Evaluators: Separation of Powers
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …