NYCMER ANNUAL CONFERENCE
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To (Pre)Serve Hosted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Monday, May 19, 2008 Click here to download the conference brochure as a pdf.
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For the past several years museums have tried to reach an increasingly wider audience. Pressure from external funding sources and consumer demands have partially driven this shift, which in many cases has lead institutions to reconsider their mission and primary focus. Have museums lost their identity in a desire to serve a greater audience or has that identity instead evolved into something better? Are we trying to be too many things to too many people? Have we been trying to serve so many different audiences that we have forgotten our mission or should that mission be changed? What are the outside perceptions of a museum versus the internal perceptions? Are we meeting the public’s expectations and should we? This conference will provide a forum to discuss the preservation of museum identity as we strive to serve our public.