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Postcard Power! How Museums Can Support the Community through a Social Connecting Campaign

By Erica Harmon

Earlier this year, as quarantine fell upon the US, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and its satellite contemporary art space the Momentary—both located in Bentonville, Arkansas—wanted to determine how best to help our region’s …
The Spaceship Solution: How museums can use experimental technology to solve problems

By Erica Harmon

Picture this: children and adults alike standing on the grounds of a museum on an early winter morning, sipping hot cocoa. Their eyes reach upward as they watch a three-foot spaceman created by the hands of an artist for this sole mission, …

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