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In attempting to gauge whether attendance at American cultural institutions is indeed declining, many commentators often conflate “museum” with “art museum,” but art museums comprise only about 4.5% of American museums, while history institutions, comprise about 55.5%.
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The museum has devised a whole range of ways to entice visitors into shelling out cash for the hotly anticipated exhibition devoted to the late superstar.
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The National Center for Arts Research, which was created in 2012 by the Meadows School of the Arts and the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, says museums "have the highest average number of touch points, both in-person and total."
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There are signs that attendance in many museums across the country is slowly falling, but the reasons why are still to be determined.
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The Fiji Mermaid was an object of fantasy but for a long time it was on display as a specimen that many people believed was real.
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The museum's president announced that as of March 1, visitors from outside of New York State will be charged a mandatory admission, but will make tickets valid for three days.
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At the CUNY Graduate Center, a multifaceted conversation on the future of museums showed some of the contrasting and competing visions for what they might become.
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Museums are reimagining their archives, their collections, and their relationship to their visitors through social tagging.
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These nine museums are using online video series to take viewers behind the scenes of their collections.
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The Garden Museum in London has reopened, showcase a recreation of a 17th-century curiosity cabinet, horticultural art, and the tombs of the deconsecrated church in which it's located.
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"Everyone wants to touch the art. It's just human nature."
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The skeleton of 19th-century collector Robert Kennicott is on view in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History's Objects of Wonder. The bones recently solved the long mystery of his death.