This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss ...

Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. It exists. It thrives. In ...

Think back to the last time you crossed a line. Did you feel brave? Deviant? Proud? Ashamed? In art institutions, we typically treat th...

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reaso...

For the past two years, I've been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community p...

Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray mu...

Do you dream of a summer filled with learning, community engagement, and sea lions? Time to stop dreaming and start doing. This summer, ...

When you look at this infographic, do you see a problem to be solved? A snapshot of the market for the arts? Or something else entirely? ...

If you run a for-profit business, the bottom line is your financial profit. The goal is to make money. At the end of the day, you are meas...

illustration by Beck Tench Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experie...