As Kickstarter continues to tackle their challenge of rapid growth, the erstwhile crowdfunding leader has added another page to their growing list of siloed sub-categories. Â #Museums was created to manage the growing number of museums from around the country which are using the Kickstarter platform to raise funds for diverse needs. Â The projects span from very small one off artistic projects to more major endeavors. Â The Marina Abramovic Institute raised $661,452 on Kickstarter just this past August. Â Almost 5000 contributors supported the campaign.
Kickstarter currently has almost 4000 live projects. Â The category “Art” has over 300 active campaigns today but the Museum genre spans several categories such as Photography or Design thus a Museum sub-category makes sense for contributors interested in supporting the arts.
Kickstarter as of today tags 15 subcategories ranging from Arctic to Zombies (Zombies continues to be very popular). Â Platform users can expect the list to grow as the number of curated pages and subcategories expand to manage the growing number of rewards based crowdfunding campaigns.