For museum program facilitators, a post-program reflection tool is a great way to not only reflect on your teaching and facilitation practice, but also generate rich data with which to evaluate your participants’ progress. At Kera, we often include these first-person perspectives in program evaluation designs as an additional data set to triangulate with data representing other relevant perspectives, like those of program participants or museum program managers.

When things don’t go as planned, it can be painful and frustrating. Yet there are other ways to do something, other paths to take. This month we share three resources to remind us of this.

In reviewing our recent blog posts, I realized that we don't talk as often about museum audiences as I would have expected. This surprised me because—as a company with over 35 years of history—we have learned so much about museum audiences over the years. We also advocate for museums to center their work around people! Therefore, I wanted to tap into our collective knowledge and share some key insights about museum audiences.

In this article, Gwendolyn Fernandez and Hannah Heller share insights from their analysis of 2024 Museum Workers Relief Fund applications, offering a snapshot of where museum workers stand in summer 2025 and what they hope for the future of museums.