Collaborators

Most museum curators look for collaborators to partner with for fiscal support. I recently stumbled across another blog concerning museums and their collaborators. The blog included clever ideas for how to get the community involved with one's museum. Obviously for our purposes, we had a more limited array of collaborators to choose from, however it is still interesting to see on a wider scale what museums would do on a professional level to maintain and strike up public interest through collaborators.
 One example mentioned was having an exhibit that involves the public directly by featuring industries relevant to the community. Providing open dialogue also allows the public to enter in, or, as the blog calls for, allowing the public to contribute their own artifacts and possibly an oral history to the museum, its a two-way learning experience for the curator and the attendee, as we've been discussing in class.
This was eye opening to me as to ways to involve the public and seeking out support and involvement which ultimately adds value, not necessarily in monetary worth but in many other forms of contribution.
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