Www.aam-us.org/docs/advocacy/aam-cjs-approps-comments-testimony-fy14.pdf?sfvrsn=2. Texas Association of Museums (TAM) The Inclusive Museum. AASLH Small Museums Newsletter :: American Association for State and Local History. By Jessica Potts, Program Director, Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum, King City, CA Programming for a small museum in a small community has its challenges. The Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum is located in a county park in King City, California.
King City has a population of 13,100 people. For almost 200 years agriculture has been the economic backbone of Monterey County and our museum focuses on this heritage through exhibitions, a successful school fieldtrip program, and special events. Our museum recently participated in a Community Engagement/Public Dimension assessment as part of the American Alliance of Museum’s Museum Assessment Program (MAP) which we found to be tremendously beneficial. A program suggestion that we received from our MAP evaluation was to investigate the possibility of offering a weekend reading program. The museum held our first Storytelling and Crafts program on the first weekend of September.
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