June 2016 OHMuseumChat - Millennials in Museums

The Ohio Museums Association (@OhioMuseums)  and our partner The Lake County Historical Society (@LakeSociety) held our June ‪#‎OHMuseumChat - Thursday, June 16 on Twitter. Thank you to all the individuals and organizations that participated in this conversation!

For June's topic, we discussed Millennials in Museums.

Many thanks to our special guest panelists, Michelle Epps from SPACES Gallery and National Emerging Museum Professionals – @Museum_Michelle, Samantha Kay Smith from Spring Hill Historic Home–@SammyKay118, Michael Voll from the Columbus Museum of Art – @ColumbusMuseum, and Bethany Corriveau from the Cleveland Museum of Art – @BethanyinCLE ! Have questions for our panelists you didn't have a chance to ask during the chat? Be sure to reach out to them via twitter with #‎OHMuseumChat!

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've got you covered! You can find a summary from June's #‎OHMuseumChat here.

There were some resources referenced during this month's chat. Those and more are listed below:

• Achieve Guidance
  • Blog, “4 Ways Museums Can Engage Millennials,” February 25, 2015. By Melissa Wall.
    http://www.achieveguidance.com/2015/02/25/4-ways-museums-can-engage-millennials/
• AdWeek
  • Article, “Millennials are Discovering Art by Ditching Museums for Instagram and Pinterest,” April 15, 2016. By Robert Klara
    http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/millennials-are-discovering-art-ditching-museums-instagram-and-pinterest-170870
• American Alliance of Museums
  • Museum Magazine article, “Embracing Millennial Perspectives,” March/April, 2016. By Colleen Dilenschneider.
    http://www.aam-us.org/resources/publications/museum-magazine/archive/embracing-millennial-perspectives
  • Museum Magazine article, “The Millennial Museum,” March/April 2016. By Michael Cannell.
    http://www.aam-us.org/resources/publications/museum-magazine/archive/the-millennial-museum
• American Association for State and Local History
  • Resources from AASLH on Millennials and Museums
    http://search.aaslh.org/search?q=millennial&page=1
• ArtNet News
  • Article, “Study Finds Millennials Prefer Instagram to Museums,” April 14, 2016. By Rain Embuscado.
    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/millennials-prefer-social-media-over-museums-473222
• Center for the Future of Museums
  • Blog Posts from AAM’s Center for the Future of Museums on Millennials and Museums
    http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/search?q=millennials
• The Century Foundation
  • Article, “A New Silent Majority – Low-Income and Minority Millennials,” December 9, 2015. By Kimberly Quick.
• Drexel University
  • Thesis, “Inviting the Big Kids to Play: How Science Museums Are Engaging Millennials,” 2014. By Whitney A. Works.
    https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/idea%3A6249
• Engage Families
  • Blog post, “Millennials in Museums 101: How to Engage Millennial Visitors,” 2015
    http://engagefamilies.org/family-learning/understanding-families/millennials-in-museums-101/
• The GBrief
  • Blog, “Are Museums Too Old School for Millennials?,” December 7, 2015.
    http://thegbrief.com/articles/are-museums-too-old-school-for-millennials-590
• Know Your Own Bone
  • Articles from Colleen Dilenschneider on Millennials and Museums
    http://colleendilen.com/category/millennials/
• Millennial Marketing
  • Blog, “Marketing Museums to Millennials,” October, 2010.
    http://www.millennialmarketing.com/2010/10/marketing-museums-to-millennials/
• New York Times
  • Article, “Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons,” March 19, 2014. By David Gelles.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/arts/artsspecial/wooing-a-new-generation-of-museum-patrons.html
• Tonvig Group
  • Blog, “Millennials and Museums: Oil and Water?,” 2014. By, Elizabeth Skolnick
    http://www.tronviggroup.com/millennials-and-museums-oil-water/

Thanks again for a fantastic June chat! We hope you can join us for our July #‎OHMuseumChat, Thursday, July 21 at noon!

Have a great topic for an upcoming chat? Leave us a comment and let us know!