Comments on: 55 Low-Resource Ways for Museums to Connect with the Community http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/19/55-low-resource-ways-for-museums-to-connect-with-the-community/ Exploring nonprofit marketing, social media and creative engagement in zoos, aquariums and museums Fri, 25 May 2012 03:05:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: yorksunburymuseum http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/19/55-low-resource-ways-for-museums-to-connect-with-the-community/#comment-1490 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:33:48 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=411#comment-1490 We have a scavenger hunt-like game at the York Sunbury Museum and kids LOVE it!! They look for little PVC frogs throughout the Museum … inspired of course by our Coleman Frog exhibit. Sometimes it’s difficult for the parents to leave because the kids do not want to leave until they have found every frog! It such a wonderful sight to see children enjoy the Musem so much giving the parents an opportunity to stay a little longer so that they can enjoy it too! Of course, we have a treasure chest filled with inexpensive prizes for all the kids who participate in our scavenger hunt!

]]> By: mjwrites http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/19/55-low-resource-ways-for-museums-to-connect-with-the-community/#comment-84 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:00:04 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=411#comment-84 Thank you for the great resource, Colleen!

]]> By: colleendilen http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/19/55-low-resource-ways-for-museums-to-connect-with-the-community/#comment-81 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:10:29 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=411#comment-81 Hi Alessandro,

Thank you for sharing. “Beyond the Museum” sounds like a great program! I think that’s exactly the kind of thing that museums can utilize to inspire personal connections between visitors and the museum in a very positive way. Though it was 30 years ago, I hope the museum still has something like this now; it sounds like a great way to build community!

]]> By: Alessandro Califano http://colleendilen.com/2009/08/19/55-low-resource-ways-for-museums-to-connect-with-the-community/#comment-80 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:43:13 +0000 http://colleendilen.com/?p=411#comment-80 Excellent, Colleen! There’s truely a lot that can (and should!) be done by a museum (or any other cultural institution) to better root into their (micro & macro) community… And some of it is really very effective. #35, 39, 37, and 54 are very inspiring!
I remember running a programme for teachers at a museum, nearly 30 years ago, that was called “Beyond the Museum” (i.e.: beyond what you can actualy see exhibited), featuring visits to the conservation and registration department, explaining the data and photographic info collected for each artefact, as well as the various ways to get back to it from various angles (no computers at that time…). Was pretty successful and you could see people coming out of the meetings with a fully new awareness about our job as museum professionals and about the role of a museum and its procedures… :-)

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