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Where do museums fit in the new landscape of science engagement?

Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Early on in our acquaintance, founding CFM Council member Peter Linett detonated a “brain grenade” with a question he has also posed on his firm’s blog: why aren’t museums more often …

Nine Effective Strategies of Audience Building

Category: Museum Magazine
Lucas Held, Anne Bergeron and Beth Tuttle summarize The Wallace Foundation report, The Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences, by Bob Harlow (2014, The Wallace …

A Visitors’ Perspective on Visitor Engagement

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Understanding visitors’ needs will greatly inform our work engagement  While engagement might seem …

Road to Results: Know Your Audience

Category: On-Demand Programs
Delivered March 11, 2015, this webinar explores four of the nine practices for audience building detailed in The Wallace Foundation report, Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building …

Magnetism and the Art of Engagement

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2013 edition of the Museum magazine.  An excerpt from Magnetic The Art and Science of Engagement, The AAM Press, 2013. In the AAM …

Full Engagement

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2018 issue of the Museum magazine.  Museums globally are expanding their social role—and value—by engaging underserved communities. …

Growing Audiences with the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers

Category: Alliance Blog
Who visits our museums? What are their motivations, and what do they expect from the experience? Alternatively, who is not visiting, and why not? These are critical questions for the future …

Discomfort in Learning: Museum audiences react to decolonizing practices.

Category: Museum Magazine
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2019 issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. Traditional museum models of interpretation have historically failed …

Road to Results: Align your Organization to Build Audiences

Category: On-Demand Programs
This recorded webinar explores three of the nine effective practices for audience building detailed in The Wallace Foundation report, Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building Arts …

The Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences

Category: Building Audiences
Delivered March 22, 2016, at the Building Arts Audiences: The Philadelphia Summit, Will Miller presents findings from the Wallace Foundation report, The Road to Results: Effective Practices …

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