Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum.
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สถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ
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Abstract
What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ages, identities and social classes? Does appealing to a larger audience force museums to "dumb down" their work? What internal changes are required? Based on a multi-year, Kress Foundation-sponsored study of ten innovative American and European collections based museums recognized by their peers to be visitor centered, Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer these key questions for the field.
Table of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Figure Acknowledgments
Ackeuoterledgments
PART ONE
Introduction: Setting the Stage
1.Considering the Visitor
2.Change Takes Leadership: Moments of Personal
Transformation
3.Contours of Change
PART Two
Case Studies
I Charting History
4.Denver Art Museum: Building a Sustainable Visitor-Centered Practice
II Engaging through Audience Immersion
5.City Museum: The Power of Play
6.Ruhr Museum: Connecting through Adaptive Reuse and Design
7.Minnesota History Center: Lessons from a Learning Team
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III Reinvigorating Traditional Museums
8.Detroit Institute of Arts: Reinventing a Landmark Museum with and for Visitors
9.Oakland Museum of California: Including a Diverse Public
10.Columbus Museum of Art: Museum as Community Living Room
IV Creating Social Change
11.Kelvingrove: Museum as Cultural Commons V Taking a Critical Stance on Museum Practice
12.Van Abbe Museum: Radicality Meets Hospitality
13.Museum of Contemporary Art Denver: Experience over Objects
PART THREE
Conclusion: Varieties of Visitor-Centeredness and Change
14.Conclusion: Varieties of Visitor-Centeredness and Organizational Change
Appendix A: Method
Appendix B: Adult Gallery Activities at the Denver Art Museum
Appendix C: Make-Up of DIA Visitor Panels
Bibliography
Index