From history to reality – engaging with visitors in the Imperial War Museum (North)
| Autor: | Raymond Powell, Jithendran Kokkranikal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Museum Management and Curatorship. 29:36-49 |
| ISSN: | 1872-9185 0964-7775 |
| Popis: | This paper is about visitor engagement in a museum, with reference to the Imperial War Museum (IWM) (North). Modern museums can be considered part of the leisure industry, and are increasingly subject to financial and marketing considerations which, rightly, put the visitor at the centre of their thinking and planning. Facilitating visitor engagement is an important factor in ensuring the smooth delivery of a museum’s core aims. It is also key to enabling accessibility, both physical and intellectual, to all as part of the museum’s widening participation agenda. The idea of what constitutes the roles and functions of museums is at an interesting point: museums have changed over the last few decades from places that were primarily about collections to places of educative and serious leisure. Findings of a case study of visitor engagement in the IWM (North) indicate that proactive visitor engagement strategies and programmes will improve the visitor experience. |
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