April 2019 #OHMuseumChat Resources – Creative Ways to Engage New Vistors

The Ohio Museums Association (@OhioMuseums) held our April ‪#‎OHMuseumChat - Thursday, April 18 on Twitter. Thank you to all the individuals and organizations that participated in this conversation!

For April's topic we discussed Creative Ways to Engage New Visitors.

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Weren't able to make it to this month's chat, but want to stay in the loop on the great conversation with other museum professionals? We have you covered! You can find a summary with details from theApril #‎OHMuseumChat here.

Below are resources related to this month's chat topic, "Creative Ways to Engage New Visitors."

American Alliance of Museums

• Resources for engaging new audiences from the American Alliance of Museums
  https://www.aam-us.org/?s=engaging+new+audiences
• Museum magazine article. “A Visitor’s Perspective on Visitor Engagement,” by Max. A. van Balgooy. July/August 2017.
  https://www.aam-us.org/2017/07/01/a-visitors-perspective-on-visitor-engagement/
• Museum magazine article. “Visitor Voices,” by Sheri Levinsky-Raskin. September/October 2015.
  https://www.aam-us.org/2015/09/01/visitor-voices/
• Museum magazine article. “Brainstorm: Inside the Mind of the Museum Visitor,” by Mary Ellen Flannery. March/April 2010.
  https://www.aam-us.org/2010/03/01/brainstorm-inside-the-mind-of-the-museum-visitor/
• Blog post. “First Steps for Engaging New Audiences,” by Bob Harlow. March 1, 2015.
  https://www.aam-us.org/2015/03/01/first-steps-for-engaging-new-audiences/

American Association for State and Local History

• AASLH Blog – Visitor’s Voices article archives
  https://aaslh.org/category/visitors-voices/
• Blog post. “Engaging New Museum Audiences with Pokemon Go,” by AASLH Contributing Author. July 18, 2016.
  https://aaslh.org/engaging-new-museum-audiences-with-pokemon-go/
• Workshop. “Focusing on Visitors: Public Programming and Exhibits at History Institutions.” June 14-18, 2019 at the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN.
  https://aaslh.org/event/workshop-focusing-on-visitors-2019jun/
• Blog Post. “Missouri History Museum Breaks Attendance Records Thanks to New Approach,” by AASLH Contributing Author. January 5, 2017.
  https://aaslh.org/missouri-history-museum-breaks-attendance-records-thanks-to-new-approach/
• Blog Post. “An Outward Museum: Building Community at the Levine Museum of the New South,” by AASLH Contributing Author. December 12, 2016.
  https://aaslh.org/an-outward-museum-building-community-at-the-levine-museum-of-the-new-south/

Association of Science and Technology Centers

• Blog Post. “New Trends in Fundraising: When Your Community’s Minority is the Majority,” by Christine Ruffo. September 25, 2016.
  https://www.astc.org/annual-conference/new-trends-fundraising-communitys-minority-majority/
• Blog Post. “The Post-Brexit ‘New Divide’ and the Importance of Engaging with Migrants and Refugees,” by Todd Happer. September 24, 2016.
  https://www.astc.org/annual-conference/post-brexit-new-divide-importance-engaging-migrants-refugees/
• Blog Post. “Has Your Institution Used Any Creative or ‘Outside-the-Box’ Methods to Attract Visitors?” by Emily Schuster. January 28, 2016.
  https://www.astc.org/astc-dimensions/has-your-institution-used-any-creative-or-outside-the-box-methods-to-attract-visitors/
• Blog Post. “Today’s Destination Visitors,” by Diane Lochner and Tom Owen. November 25, 2013
  https://www.astc.org/astc-dimensions/todays-destination-visitors/
• Blog Post. “Engaging the Whole Community,” by Emily Schuster. October 22, 2013.
  https://www.astc.org/annual-conference/engaging-the-whole-community/

Gensler

• Research summary. “Engage: The Future of Museums – Interim findings from roundtable discussions on audience engagement and the role of the museum in the community,” by Bevin Savage-Yamazaki and Nina Murrell. 2014-2015.
  https://www.gensler.com/uploads/document/395/file/gensler_museum-research-interim-report.pdf

Know Your Own Bone

• Data and analysis summary. “The Key to Reaching New Audiences for Cultural Organizations,” by Colleen Dilenschneider. November 15, 2017.
  https://www.colleendilen.com/2017/11/15/reach-likely-visitors-not-attending-cultural-organizations-data/

 Museum 2.0

• Blog Post. “Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race,” by Nina Simon. April 26, 2018.
  http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2018/04/which-new-audiences-great-washington.html

 Museum Identity

• Museum-iD Magazine article. “Audience Engagement: How Museums Learned to Love their Visitors,” by Adom Rozan. July 2016.
  https://museum-id.com/audience-engagement-how-museums-learned-to-love-their-visitors-by-adam-rozan/

 Vibethink

• Blog Post. “Engaging Younger Audiences with Museums,” by Chelsea Hartman. July 11, 2017.
  https://vibethink.com/engaging-younger-audiences-museums/

Thanks again for a fantastic April chat! We hope you can join us for our May #‎OHMuseumChat,  Thursday, May 16 as we discuss "Building Partnerships: Museums and Schools."

Have a great topic for an upcoming chat? Drop us a line at [email protected] or tweet @OhioMuseums and let us know!