An Introduction To Museum Visitor Research
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An Introduction To Museum Visitor Research
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Author : Margaret Bouslough Parsons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
An Introduction To Museum Visitor Research written by Margaret Bouslough Parsons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Museum attendance categories.
The theoretical base for visitor behavior research derives to a large extent from psychologist Edward Robinson. His monograph, The Behavior of the Museum Visitor, came out in 1928. Robinson and co-researcher, Arthur Melton, used observational methods, borrowed from psychology, to define behavior patterns within museums that could account for such things as why visitors perferred certain walls over others, why the traffic patterns within galleries were often predictable, why visitors frequently missed the most important exhibits, and why some styles of exhibitry were more successful in attracting or building attention than others.
Introduction To Museum Evaluation
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Author : Minda Borun
language : en
Publisher: American Alliance of Museums
Release Date : 1999
Introduction To Museum Evaluation written by Minda Borun and has been published by American Alliance of Museums this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Museum attendance categories.
Through a collections of articles, Introduction to Museum Evaluation explains how visitor studies can influence and improve museum exhibits, program planning, and services.
Designing For The Museum Visitor Experience
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Author : Tiina Roppola
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Designing For The Museum Visitor Experience written by Tiina Roppola and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Art categories.
Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure activity. But how much do we really know about the moment-by-moment transactions that comprise the intricate experiences of visitors? To strengthen the disciplinary knowledge base supporting exhibition design, we must understand more about what ‘goes on’ as people engage with the multifaceted communication environments that are contemporary exhibition spaces. The in-depth, visitor-centered research underlying this book offers nuanced understandings of the interface between visitors and exhibition environments. Analysis of visitors’ meaning-making accounts shows that the visitor experience is contingent upon four processes: framing, resonating, channeling, and broadening. These processes are distinct, yet mutually influencing. Together they offer an evidence-based conceptual framework for understanding visitors in exhibition spaces. Museum educators, designers, interpreters, curators, researchers, and evaluators will find this framework of value in both daily practice and future planning. Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience provides museum professionals and academics with a fresh vocabulary for understanding what goes on as visitors wander around exhibitions.
New Museum Theory And Practice
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Author : Janet Marstine
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
New Museum Theory And Practice written by Janet Marstine and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Business & Economics categories.
New Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection ofessays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologiesof museum exhibition. Contains 12 original essays that contribute to the field whilecreating a collective whole for course use. Discusses theory through vivid examples and historicaloverviews. Offers guidance on how to put theory into practice. Covers a range of museums around the world: from art tohistory, anthropology to music, as well as historic houses,cultural centres, virtual sites, and commercial displays that usethe conventions of the museum. Authors come from the UK, Canada, the US, and Australia, andfrom a variety of fields that inform cultural studies.
The Engaging Museum
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Author : Graham Black
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
The Engaging Museum written by Graham Black and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Art categories.
This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards. This holistic approach will be immensely helpful to museums in meeting the needs and expectations of visitors and building their audience. This book features: includes chapter introductions and discussion sections supporting case studies to show how ideas are put into practice a lavish selection of tables, figures and plates to support and illustrate the discussion boxes showing ideas, models and planning suggestions to guide development an up-to-date bibliography of landmark research. The Engaging Museum offers a set of principles that can be adapted to any museum in any location and will be a valuable resource for institutions of every shape and size, as well as a vital addition to the reading lists of museum studies students.
The Personalization Of The Museum Visit
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Author : Seph Rodney
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-13
The Personalization Of The Museum Visit written by Seph Rodney and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-13 with Social Science categories.
The Personalization of the Museum Visit examines a fundamental shift in institutional behavior in museums located in the United States and the United Kingdom. Contending that art museums have moved toward a new paradigm of public engagement, it posits that modern museum visitors are treated as self-directed "clients", with the agency to make meaning for themselves. The book then considers how this change has come about, examining factors such as the onset of a new museology, an experience economy, and a marketing revolution. Drawing on extensive research undertaken at Britain’s Tate Modern, the book examines a range of issues, including visitor engagement, curatorial practice, and museum management. A visit experience that is customizable to the individual visitor, in which curators and marketers work together with visitor-clients to create an experience of personalized meaning, is, Rodney argues, rising in prevalence in the art museum field, but it is also being stymied by certain structural impediments. This book examines such obstacles, including institutional division of labor, long-standing conceptions, or misconceptions, of the museum’s mission, and the orientation of museums toward a certain conceptual model of their visitors. The Personalization of the Museum Visit is essential reading for scholars and students engaging with issues of visitor engagement, curatorial practice, and museum management. With a particular focus on the role of business interests and public policy, the book should also be of interest to those undertaking research in fields outside of museum and visitor studies.
The Current Value Of Visitor Research In Museums
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Author : Madeline Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Current Value Of Visitor Research In Museums written by Madeline Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art museum visitors categories.
The most pressing issue facing museums today is audience engagement; and like any community, the museum audience is made of a diverse array of groups all with different wants and needs all necessitating investigation. In order for museums to ensure that they are engaging with their various audiences in the most successful way possible and to realize which audiences they are underserving, conducting visitor research is imperative. Visitor research is an active component of the museum process, as it engages the audience directly and incorporates their views into the practices of the museum. Research is an indispensable tool for museums allowing them to build organizational and program planning grounded in an understanding of the museum's audience and what has been proven to be successful. It is a learning tool and the organization emerges with more knowledge, self-assurance and the ability to improve in the future. It is increasingly agreed that visitor studies are important to understand how the museum communicates and the return on the investment (time spent and financial) is clear; the information can be used to build a stronger case for support and definitively proves successes and failures. Funding organizations, for example, typically require some sort of evaluation of a project's effectiveness to justify future funding. Focusing on the visitor's needs does not mean pandering to the visitors but opening up the process to incorporate what visitors already know and build upon it in the exhibition's message and delivery method, still allowing the museum staff to make the final decisions about the exhibit's message, layout, content, etc. But in today's museum culture it is no longer enough for the museum to exist as a place of contemplation and learning, museum exhibits are expected to be interactive and engaging and to have the ability to prove this effectiveness in measurable terms. Visitor research can provide institutions with invaluable information on their audiences which can be used to better the institution, increase its funding, and prove its indispensable place in its community. As Diane E. Ragsdale of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation observes, "it's time for the arts to stop waiting for people to find us, to appreciate us, and instead move toward them; seek to understand them; break into their hearts and minds - in that order."1 This thesis aims to explore these issues, focusing on the history and development of this type of research, common methods used in the market and audience research field, and explore three case studies which track the evolving use of this type of research.
Foundations Of Museum Studies
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Author : Kiersten F. Latham
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-09-11
Foundations Of Museum Studies written by Kiersten F. Latham and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This broad introduction to museums benefits all educators who teach introductory museum studies, addressing the discipline from a holistic, dynamic, and document-centered perspective. Museums serve to help us understand the past and navigate our future—as individuals, as societies, and as a global community. A careful and accurate assessment of a museum's purpose is crucial to its ability to serve its users effectively. Foundations of Museum Studies: Evolving Systems of Knowledge offers a holistic introduction to museums and the study of them from the perspective of specialization in museum studies within the context of library and information science (LIS). The book strikes a balance between theory and practice, examining museums from a systems perspective that considers museums to be document-centered institutions—that objects are documents that generate and convey information, meaning, and inspiration. The authors utilize examples drawn from their experience with institutions in the United States that can be applied to museums across the world. Future museum professionals who read this book will have a broader perspective, an expanded skill set, and the adaptability to span the spectrum of traditional academic disciplines.
Questioning Assumptions
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Author : Lynn Diane Dierking
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Questioning Assumptions written by Lynn Diane Dierking and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Museum attendance categories.
Research that is done at the very beginning of the planning process is often called "front-end studies". Although they are most often associated with exhibition development, such studies are equally useful in planning programs, marketing campaigns, or entirely new instit-utions. Based on written reports and interviews with those who implement studies, this book discusses how people learn; their understandings, attitudes, and beliefs; and whey they visit museums in the first place. It is sure to challenge museums' traditional approaches to exhibit and program design.
Identity And The Museum Visitor Experience
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Author : John H Falk
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-16
Identity And The Museum Visitor Experience written by John H Falk and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Art categories.
Drawing upon a career in studying museum visitors, renowned researcher John Falk attempts to create a predictive model of visitor experience, one that can help museum professionals better meet those visitors’ needs.