Research Catalog

Title

The engaging museum : developing museums for visitor involvement / Graham Black.

Author

Black, Graham

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Details

Description

xii, 308 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors.

Series Statement

Heritage

Uniform Title

Heritage

Subject

• Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau
• Historisches Museum Frankfurt Museumspädagogik
• Museum attendance > Evaluation
• Museum exhibits > Evaluation
• Museums > Environmental aspects
• Museums > Marketing
• Museums > Management
• Museum techniques
• Museum visitors
• Interpretation of cultural and natural resources
• Cultural property > Protection
• Cultural property > Management
• Historic sites > Management
• Museums > Educational aspects
• museology
• museum administration
• 20.12 art museums
• Museums > Educational aspects
• Cultural property > Protection
• Historic sites > Management
• Interpretation of cultural and natural resources
• Museum attendance > Evaluation
• Museum exhibits > Evaluation
• Museum techniques
• Museum visitors
• Museums > Environmental aspects
• Museums > Management
• Museums > Marketing
• Museumsorganisation
• Ausstellung
• Bedürfnisorientierung
• Benutzerforschung
• Besucherverhalten
• Gestaltung
• Museumspädagogik
• Musea
• Bezoekers
• Tentoonstellingen
• Management
• Museumkunde
• Éducation muséale
• Fréquentation
• Musée
• Objet exposé
• Aspect pédagogique
• Marketing
• Muséologie
• Bien culturel
• Protection du patrimoine
• Interprétation
• Service à la clientèle

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-301) and index.

Contents

Introduction : meeting the demands placed on the twenty-first century museum -- Sect. 1. Museum audiences : their nature, needs and expectations -- 1. 'Traditional' museum audiences : a quantitative and qualitative analysis -- 2. Developing new audiences -- Sect. 2. Operating for quality -- 3. Stimulating the visit -- 4. Visitor services : operating for quality -- Sect. 3. Learning in museums -- 5. Museums and lifelong learning -- 6. Use of museums by schools -- Sect. 4. Planned to engage : using interpretation to develop museum displays and associated services -- 7. Applying the principles of interpretation to museum display -- 8. Interpretive master planning -- 9. Concept development for museum galleries -- 10. The engaging museum.

ISBN

• 0415345561
• 9780415345569
• 041534557X
• 9780415345576

LCCN

2004061484

OCLC

• ocm57068904
• 57068904
• SCSB-1371174

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library