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Earth Works: Establishing a Green Team at Your Museum

By Ivey Rucket

“People don’t have to do heroic things. Very few of us can do heroic things. But we can do little things. And at certain points in history, millions of those little things accumulate and you have a movement, and you have power, and …
Family Interactive Spaces: Are They Necessary or Just Nice?

By Julia Forbes and Marianna Adams

Cultivating a strong family audience is critical for museums, and as practitioners we use many different strategies to do this, including special family days and festivals, workshops, tours, backpacks, gallery guides, labels, in-gallery …
A Museum ‘Dating’ App Helps Visitors Fall in Love with Art

By Julia Forbes and Ivey Rucket

As the High Museum of Art prepared to completely reinstall its collection in the fall of 2018, we began talking about how we could use mobile technologies in new and innovative ways to engage the public with our newly installed galleries. …

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