People who work in audience research and visitor studies, or really any field that has an audience, inevitably must be able to describe whom they work with and for. The term “general public” is a common term. But there are so many issues with this term that I’ve decided not to use it; I also…
One of my favorite classes to teach is Museums and Audiences which is a broad brush introduction of the world of audience research and evaluation. This semester we’re trying out using Evernote to keep track of all the cool ideas and resources related to our class reading list. https://www.evernote.com/pub/eleewood/museumsandaudiencesspring2014
Here’s a link to my talk, “52 Museums in Search of the Objects of Experience”. This is an overview of some of the work I did in preparation for the book, The Objects of Experience.
More conversation has emerged around holistic approaches to visitor studies and the meaning of visitor experiences in relation to public value. As a field we are constantly looking for strategies to capture the value of visitor experience, and methods that address the “un-measurable” qualities of affective experience such as perception of value, perspectives, and personal…
Stories without Words: Immersive Environments Here’s a recap of my presentation for the Stories without Words session at AAM, Baltimore. Objects in museums In museums, objects serve as examples to explain an idea—whether they are artifacts, specimens or props, everything contributes to telling the story. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis has been developing large-scale immersive…
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