Hello!
With the number of groups that visit our museum (rather than individuals), we have been shifting our institutional focus to family groups, in an effort to reach every visitor in that social group during their visit. For our Family Days at the museum, we not only do in house programming but also bring in area organizations that cover a broad spectrum of interests (art, STEM, bicycle safety, etc). Whether we or a partner is leading an activity during the day, we work to ensure the activity is a family program rather than kid program.
The Engage Families project by the USS Constitution Museum has been most helpful in enabling us to evaluate and develop programs in a way that parents are leading and programmers/educators are facilitating. You can read more here: Programs
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There are many audiences you could design a program for - adults, seniors, children, students, families. No one audience is better or more important than another. The audience(s) you choose to design for will inform much of your program design and facilitation. |
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Hope this is helpful for you as much as it was us! We're still continuing work on this, but we're finding it's more beneficial to program to the whole group than to separate our audiences on Family Days.
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Allison Clark
Visitor Experience Manager
Minnetrista
Muncie IN
Original Message:
Sent: 06-24-2016 04:19 PM
From: Suarmis Travieso Lewis
Subject: Adult Programs during Family Days
Hello,
I am the Public Programs Manager at HistoryMiami Museum. We host a monthly free family day that currently offers programs mainly for families with young children. However, in an effort to offer more inter-generational programming we are thinking of adding scheduled adult oriented programming at the same time we offer family programs. Has anyone been able to successfully implement something like or similar to this? We have some concerns about the adults leaving their children unattended to participate in the adult oriented activities.
You can message me directly at stravieso@historymiami.org
Thank you
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Suarmis Travieso Lewis
Public Programs Manager
HistoryMiami
Miami FL
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