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Museums and Creative Aging: A Healthful Partnership

“Museums are public-facing institutions that exist for the sharing of ideas, creative processes, and wisdom across and between diverse cultures, communities, and generations. This report advocates three interconnected strategies for the field that build on this foundational mission as well as the successes of the Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums initiative:

1 Invest in a diverse array of onsite and online programs that encourage healthy and active aging, a practice known as “creative aging.”

2 Work actively to combat society’s prejudices toward older people, an issue known as “ageism.”

3 Foster new kinds of research and partnerships that can advance these goals.

 

The aim of the report is to advance museums’ understanding of the interrelated issues of creative aging and ageism and suggest ways that cultural

institutions can actively support older people. It does this through the five chapters and supplemental appendices that follow.” (p.9)