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.
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.
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 marketing materials.
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 Vincent van Gogh.
Turnkey Programs
We offer six ready-made programs for a wide range of museums.
- Art Museums. Great art leads to great stories. Our signature program, “The Art of Writing,” invites writers to discover stories, poems, and personal reflections in your galleries.
- History Museums. History is full of stories waiting to be told. Our “Pages from History” program invites writers to your site to discover characters, conflicts, and moments from the past.
- Science Museums. Every story begins with a question. Our “Scientific Discoveries” program invites writers to find stories in innovation, invention, and the thrill of scientific inquiry.
- Natural History Museums. The earth is full timeless tales. Our “Carved in Stone” program invites writers to discover them in fossils, specimens, ancient landscapes, and traces of worlds long gone.
- Planetariums. The stars were the stage for humanity’s first storytellers. Our “Written in the Stars” program invites writers to explore the myths and legends of planets, stars, and outer space.
- Wildlife Centers. The natural world is full of drama. Our “Call of the Wild” program invites writers to discover character, conflict, and survival in nature centers, zoos, aquariums, and preserves.
Licensing
You can license our signature programs for a single exhibition or for a full year of programming.