Connect audiences with learning experiences.
Our efforts will help you find your audience and drive attendance and enrollment, target donors, expand revenue streams, and turn exhibitions, events, and programs into can’t-miss experiences.
An arts and culture organization’s ambitions are often bigger than its operating budget. That’s why our disciplined approach to problem-solving emphasizes substantive marketing solutions that maximize ROI with minimal resources. We help museums, educational institutions, and arts organizations achieve their goals through smart, targeted marketing, including:
- Creating compelling campaigns that boost attendance, enrollment, and donations
- Redesigning membership programs for increased revenue and member benefits
- Articulating mission, values, and goals clearly to the public
- Updating and improving outdated or less functional web presences
We provide museums and educational organizations with best-in-class tools and strategies to compete in an increasingly crowded and competitive marketplace.
Let’s work together to increase your donations, improve and update your membership program, and enhance your brand so you can continue to educate, inform, and delight your community.
Our Approach
Museums and cultural organizations need efficient and effective results. That’s why we use our proprietary D365 process to identify and solve short-term issues while developing sustainable and effective long-term strategies for increasing donations and attendance.
Day Zero
To achieve lasting success, we identify what’s working and what’s falling short in your current marketing, outreach, and branding efforts.
Triage
We close the gap on any current efforts—from misaligned campaigns to broken websites—while developing a long-term road map for connecting with key audiences.
Ignite
Now it’s time to take the next step with your brand, launching smarter marketing campaigns, new and revitalized web presences, and curated analytics to make an audience impact.
Services
Driving Customers
CUSTOMERS
Developing Beloved
BRANDS
CASE
Studies
This legendary New York City museum turned to us to create a new membership program that would delight current and future members alike.
We worked with the world's oldest children's museum to update their visual brand and collateral to better reflect the fun, playful exhibits they shared with the community.
Our Addy Award-winning work for The Mob Museum helped this nonprofit museum revitalize their brand, reinvigorate their digital presence, and even promote their new on-site speakeasy.
miSci has served New York residents as a science museum, planetarium, and archive for decades but needed a boost for its brand to thrive in the digital age.
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