Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Graham Black
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.643kg
ISBN:  

9780415345576

ISBN 10:   041534557
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   26 May 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface, Graham Black; Chapter 102 Introduction, Graham Black; Part 01 Museum audiences: their nature, needs and expectations, Graham Black; Chapter 1 ‘Traditional’ museum audiences: a quantitative and qualitative analysis, Graham Black; Chapter 2 Developing new audiences, Graham Black; Part 02 Operating for quality, Graham Black; Chapter 3 Stimulating the visit, Graham Black; Chapter 4 Visitor services: operating for quality, Graham Black; Part 03 Learning in museums, Graham Black; Chapter 5 Museums and lifelong learning, Graham Black; Chapter 6 Use of museums by schools, Graham Black; Part 04 Planned to engage, Graham Black; Chapter 7 Applying the principles of interpretation to museum display, Graham Black; Chapter 8 Interpretive master planning, Graham Black; Chapter 9 Concept development for museum galleries, Graham Black; Chapter 10 The engaging museum, Graham Black;

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"""This is a well-researched, detailed book that presents much food for thought for museum managers and staff."" -Collection Management,vol.30, no 4"

This is a well-researched, detailed book that presents much food for thought for museum managers and staff. -Collection Management,vol.30, no 4

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