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Leaning into Value: Measuring and Monetizing Visitor Experiences
How do you demonstrate that your institution provides social value and community impact? This is a question that all museum boards, leadership, and staff contemplate, but supplying the data …
Access Journey: From One-Off Events to Creating a Culture of Accessibility
How do we ensure that our accessibility efforts are all-encompassing and more than a one-off event? Creating an institutionalized culture of accessibility might feel like an overwhelming …
Every Museum is a Community Museum Defining and Prioritizing Communities
Before the field evaluates community impact, it must address an elephant in the room: the implicit (and sometimes explicit) binary between “visitors” and “community.” Is every visitor a …
Measuring Museum Social Impact: Lessons and Resources from a National Study
With IMLS funding, the Measurement of Museum Social Impact study has spent months working with museums across the US to validate a social impact instrument. Watch this recorded session from …
CARE-apy: Belonging in Cultural Institutions
Approaches, Findings & Future Directions for the Field What does belonging look like in cultural institutions? We’ll share how two projects worked to understand belonging – across a …
Retaining Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Board Members
(This video runs 56:05) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Facing Change: Building Board Diversity—Retention (Slide Deck) Intent vs. Impact Museum Board …
Supporting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 41:50) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Intercultural Development Inventory Guidance for IDI Pairs (Activity) Boarding, Building, …
Recruiting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 50:34) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Museum Board Recruitment Matrix Museum Board Prospective Interviews Guiding Question Once we have …
Onboarding Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 39:08) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Stages of Team Development Onboarding for New Trustees Guiding Question Once a new recruit has …
Attracting Racially & Ethnically Diverse Museum Trustees
(This video runs 39:11) Return to Diversifying Museum Boards main page Supporting Documents Museum Network Expansion Visits Museum Stakeholder Identification Guiding Question How do we …
CARE-apy: How to Measure Museum Social Impact: From Participant Recruitment to Retention
As the national Measurement of Museum Social Impact (MOMSI) study comes to a close, come learn how study sites navigated visitor participation in the project. Hear from three different …
Inclusive Decision-Making for Museums
What does inclusive decision-making look like for museums? Does it mean that everything needs to be decided by consensus? (Hint: no.) And how do you hold people accountable? If you are …