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Backpack-Sized Archiving Kit Empowers Community Historians to Record Local Narratives

The new Archivist in a Backpack project from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill equips community partners with tools to start material and oral history archives. Much of our …

A Museum Offers the Chance to Wander Its Galleries All Alone

Wouldn't it be great to have a museum all to yourself for a day? As Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote in No Exit, "hell is other people." This is especially true at museums, where no matter …

As Museum Attendance Declines, One Institute Argues Audience Engagement Is on the Rise

The National Center for Arts Research, which was created in 2012 by the Meadows School of the Arts and the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, says museums "have the …

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