Education & Interpretation

Building Community Through Spaces for Families

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Spaces for early learners provide critical access points for parents, caregivers, and children to connect with a museum and its collections. Building a strong family audience is key for museums to build strong relationships with communities and become essential to people’s lives. Hear how an art museum and a natural history museum created experiences to empower caregivers and build the comfort level needed for return visitation. Gain insight into how evaluation and research can support museums’ efforts to develop family audiences, champion families as institutional partners, and create successful learning experiences for children and caregivers.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the importance of family audiences as valuable museum stakeholders and key voices to include in their institution’s efforts to increase community engagement and relevance.
• Identify key attributes of successful spaces for early learners in diverse museum settings.
• Implement multiple methods, including evaluation, for building community through the development, planning and implementation of engaging family experiences in their own institutions.

Moderator(s)

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  Mike Denison

  Principal / Design Director
  Roto

Panelist(s)

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  Marianna Adams

  Principal
  Audience Focus, Inc.
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  Julia Forbes

  Shannon Landing Amos Head of Museum Interpretation
  High Museum of Art
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  Beth Redmond-Jones

  Vice President of Engagement and Education
  San Diego Natural History Museum (The Nat)