The Visitor Studies Association was awarded a $449,957 Project Grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program. The grant will fund a 2-year project to investigate how to build community through virtual conferencing in order to improve accessibility, inclusion, and reduce the carbon footprint of museum conferences. The project will create an oversight committee, convene key stakeholders in virtual meetings, synthesize best practices, and test prototypes of promising approaches for virtual networking and community building. The project will result in a final report and a practitioner's guide to the most effective virtual conferencing designs to be widely disseminated to museum professionals.
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