Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Guest Post by Seema Rao: How Museums Can Resist Racism and Oppression

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This guest post was written by Seema Rao , a 2017 MuseumCamper and brilliant GLAM visitor advocate. Seema wrote it (original post here ) i...
Tuesday, August 01, 2017

The Seven Emotional Stages of Opening a Major Project

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1. Plan. Meet with stakeholders, staff, partners. Dream. Sketch. Pick dates as if you had any control over the concrete. Schedule. Sell. ...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Announcing The Art of Relevance Audiobook! Get Yours for Free Today.

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Last year, when I released  The Art of Relevance , people asked if there was an audiobook version in the works. It honestly hadn't cro...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

How Do You Inspire Visitors to Take Action After They Leave?

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This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (b...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Want to Work at the MAH? Now's Your Chance.

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The  Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History  keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. W...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Are Cultural Organizations Built to Fail to Scale?

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My new audial obsession is the podcast How I Built This , in which Guy Raz interviews entrepreneurs who built notable companies. The podca...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Why We Moved the Abbott Square Opening - A Mistake, a Tough Call, & a Pivot: Introducing Abbott Square, Bonus Post

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Excited to open... but not quite yet. This is the eleventh in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Ask Me Anything about our Expansion... and Enjoy All the Posts in the Abbott Square Series

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We’re just weeks away from opening  Abbott Square  to the public here in Santa Cruz, CA. Over the past ten weeks, I’ve written about some ...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

What's More Inclusive: Food or Art? Introducing Abbott Square, Part 10

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This is the tenth in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of  Abbott Square , a new...
Wednesday, May 03, 2017

Think Like a (Real Estate) Developer: Introducing Abbott Square, Part 9

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This is the ninth in a  series of posts  on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of  Abbott Square , a new...