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ACM Groupsite is the Association of Children's Museums' central hub online. It's a space where children's museum staff, stakeholders, and partners can view upcoming events from ACM, network with other children's museum professionals, and ask for advice, share ideas, and access resources on our discussion boards.
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Session Proposal: Developing Exhibits
: "Hello. I am considering proposing a session about exhibit development and would like to consider 2 angles:
1. Involving Families in Exhibit Development - at the Missouri History Museum, we opened the History Clubhouse a nearly 6000 sq ft exhibit dedicated to families (www.mohistory.org/historyclubhouse). Because this was a new endeavor for us as..."
Incentives for booking outreach or in-school programs
: "We're looking for others that have had success getting schools to book outreach (in-school) programs early (read: 2+months out). Likewise, curious if anyone has had any luck encouraging fall bookings.
We have had some success but many of our schools tend to wait until the school year is up and running, or wait until the spring semester, before t..."
(DELETED) Session Proposal: The Worst Thing We've Ever Done / Epic Fails / #Museumfail
: "We are looking for co-presenters for an Interactivity 2019 session about mistakes and learning from them. We are imagining three "case studies" of failed projects in any area of children's museum work (exhibits, programming, management, etc.) and how the museum came to terms with it, dealt with it, learned from it, and moved on. We would then of..."
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