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As the nation approaches the American 250th, African American cultural organizations across the Southeast are leading essential ...

Hello colleagues, I'm interested in how other museums handle situations where employees may need to bring a child to ...

Hi Kelsey - Right now we use a hand clicker for counts. We also ask whether or not our visitors have been to our museum before, ...

Hey Kelsey, This is a great thread. It's clear a lot of you are already doing the right things with check-ins and spreadsheets. ...

Hi, we are a free museum as well that does similar. We have a guest sign in book, but primarily count visitors by a hand clicker ...

Chatham County Historical Museum is a small 501(c)3, all-volunteer museum. We collect name, address, how the visitor heard about ...

There are several 'museology' or 'museum studies' programmes offered by American & Canadian colleges & universities. Each will ...

Hi all! As a free museum, we currently keep track of attendance with a simple check-in, asking visitors for their zip code/country, ...

Hi Martha, Tanya made some great suggestions. To those I'd add inclusion of what it means to be, work in and run a nonprofit. ...

Hi Martha, This is a great initiative. What an exciting program to build. While I don't come from a historian or museum studies ...