Transcript: The Path Forward: Museums with Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie G. Bunch III & Director of the National Museum of American History Anthea M. Hartig, PhD - News Summed Up

Transcript: The Path Forward: Museums with Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie G. Bunch III & Director of the National Museum of American History Anthea M. Hartig, PhD


You know, as Lonnie shared, we all took part in the loss of earned revenue in particular, and really of course, you know, we live to welcome people through our doors, right? We welcome just for the American History Museum approximately 4 to 5 million people a year and reach another 8 or 10 million online. So, like so many museums across the nation, we pivoted. We--a hundred percent of the museums that are in our broader Made By Us coalition who responded to a survey changed and did their work online. So, it was a remarkable year, of course cascading crises, none the least of which was viral, that--in which we learned how to do our work differently.


Source: Washington Post May 12, 2021 20:25 UTC



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