Museums Are Cool
21Minus, the museum's annual teen takeover, makes the museum a place to hangout.
21Minus is really bringing in more teens to the museum. Because I know when I was younger, I didn't think museums were a cool place to hang out necessarily, but now it—especially the MCA, that's definitely where I'd come with my friends after school. And I think 21Minus really advocates that.
Participants at 21Minus, May 17, 2014. Photo: Gillian Fry, © MCA Chicago.
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