1. Museum as the New Town Square: Creating Community

2. Ryan Paul Museum Curator Frontier Homestead Museum Rachel Stratford Museum Educator Springville Museum of Art

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4. The Town Square: A Place of Community

6. What is a Community? Dependent on the respect of others and their differences An understanding of individual and collective pasts Preservation of representative symbols of our history

8. “We must find new ways to nurture the civic ‘we’ instead of our current overemphasis on the individualistic and insular ‘me.’” - Archibald

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10. Sense of Place Tied to our social commitment Connect people to “preceding generations” In our age of on-demand entertainment we are often connected to other things rather than what’s around us. There is a reason we silence our cell phones during the play and it is not just so we don’t bug the actors. It creates presence within us.

12. “This is a place to discuss what we have done well, where we have fallen short, and how we can do better. It is a place for coming together and appreciating how we differ and examining how very much we share.” - Archibald

13. Mission Driven Why do we do what we do? Is our mission to just get people in the door? How do we incorporate our mission in our programming?

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15. Identifying Community: Audience vs. Stakeholders Audiences: Message Receivers Passive Participants Stakeholders: Directly impacted by decisions and actions of organization Active Participants Affect how your brand is perceived Have direct and indirect influence and interests on the museum.

16. Share, Learn, Connect Someday, sometime, the people next door will be important. We need our neighbors. We should not wait for a disaster to learn their names. “People create places, and places make people. And that’s what makes a culture.” - Archibald

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18. Events to Build Community

21. Ryan Paul Frontier Homestead Museum ryanpaul@utah.gov Rachel Stratford Springville Museum of Art rstratford@springville.org Contact Information