Website

Between June 30, 2019, and July 1, 2020, there were 140,906 user sessions on the Hood Museum's website. At the beginning of the fall term, on September 16, 2019, an astounding 1,676 users visited the museum's website. Due to last year's spike in activity, we decided to be particularly strategic about website content and information for students on the homepage for their arrival this year.

We continued to optimize and clean up the site and make it more robust. As part of this effort, during the first six months of 2020, we worked to further finetune the searchability of the museum's "Stories and News" section. There is now a dropdown menu for both categories and tags, which enables a much better experience for the user. We also dedicated a page to accessibility information.

In the spring and early summer of 2020, the museum launched an official Hood Museum of Art YouTube channel. We are no longer just a playlist within Dartmouth's channel. Work to organize and polish the final site is ongoing. We plan to announce the new channel on our website and social channels in the fall of 2020. Also, in the near future, we envision a video of the director introducing the museum to our audiences on the channel's homepage.