Creative Writing Programs for Your Museum
Imagine opening your doors to an entirely new audience of enthusiastic visitors who can become donors, paying members, and brand ambassadors.
You’ve already done the hard part. You’ve curated collections and exhibitions designed to inspire, intrigue, and enlighten.
That’s exactly what writers are looking for.
When you welcome writers to your museum, you’ll expand your reach to people across your community. And in return, visiting writers will discover countless stories in your collections and exhibitions.
What’s more, you’ll boost your outreach and community engagement with an audience that’s often overlooked. You’ll encourage curiosity, close observation, and creative thinking. You’ll attract lifelong learners of all ages, and you’ll help participants form a deeper connection with your collections.
Writers make terrific museum visitors. They look closely. They ask questions. They stay awhile.
Most tend to be quiet, curious, and self-directed. They bring their own supplies, and they don’t make a mess. And when they find a museum that inspires them, they bring friends, attend events, support programs, and spread the word.
Best of all, a Museum Writers program is remarkably easy to present. We provide everything you need: facilitator guides, training materials, instructional handouts, activity packets, and promotional materials.
If you have room for writers in your museum, you can be up and running right away.
Custom Programs
When you curate a special exhibition, we can create a custom Museum Writers experience just for you, complete with original activities and a custom writers guidebook created for your exhibition. Here’s an example: An Evening with Van Gogh.
Signature Programs
We offer four ready-made Museum Writers programs.
- The Art of Writing. Made for art museums and galleries, sculpture gardens, photography and design museums, and other places where visual art takes center stage.
- Pages from History. Created for history museums, historic sites, cultural and heritage centers, and other places where the past is present.
- Scientific Discoveries. Designed for science and technology museums, natural history museums, and other places where stories wait to be discovered.
- Animal Instincts. Created for zoos, aquariums, wildlife centers, and nature centers, where animals, habitats, behavior, and survival inspire stories in the wildest sense.
Licensing
You can license our signature programs for a single exhibition or for a full year of programming.