دانلود کتاب Museum Visitor Studies in the 90s

Who are the visitors to museums? What do they think about exhibitions? In September 1993, the Science Museum, London, held a major international conference exploring these issues. This book forms the proceedings of the conference. The contributors are the leading practitioners and theorists in the field. Three wide-ranging and provocative keynote papers from Ross Loomis, Roger Miles and Kenneth Hudson set the scene. The papers that follow tease out some problems currently under debate. Why do we bother with evaluation? Do researchers' beliefs bias findings? What can academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, anthropology and mass-media studies contribute to an understanding of visiting and visitors? Can researchers use tools from more than one field? What can museums make of the data collected? Practitioners also report past successes and failures. Museum Visitor Studies in the 90s is a survey of the field. lt will be valuable to museum professionals, managers of heritage and visitor sites, and social scientists.This reprint of the book contains a new afterward and an index. The specially commissioned afterward highlights progress in visitor studies and its relevance to visitor-centred projects for the Millenium.