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Best Practices: Three Examples

As part of the Innovate/Collaborate grant project, Drexel Museum Leadership graduate students visited and/or spoke with curatorial staff at three different museums in Philadelphia about how these sites are using historical collections for 21st-century public engagement in current exhibit programming.

On the following pages we share several key takeaways from each site that the students identified as best practices for civic engagement and/or innovative teaching and learning.

Museum of the American Revolution: CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: King George’s statue being taken down in “The Road to Independence” exhibit (Caleb Craig, 2021)

“Meet the Future...” and “Touch a Piece of History...” (Jim Griffin, 2022) Washington’s tent (Gordon Makryllos, 2017)

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