Insights : museums, visitors, attitudes, expectations : a focus group experiment / sponsored by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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Insights : museums, visitors, attitudes, expectations : a focus group experiment / sponsored by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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180 pages ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 150).
Part I. Museum focus groups summary report / submitted by Alan Newman Research -- Purpose and method: major findings. Staff expectations ; Nonvisitation ; Museum experience ; Orientation ; Information ; Layout and organization ; Physical surroundings and presentation ; Communication of benefits ; Employees. -- Part II. Listening to visitors: the focus group experiment: proceedings of a colloquium held in Phoenix, Arizona, November 15-18, 1989. Session summaries: Welcome and hopes for the colloquium ; What did the focus groups reveal? ; How do focus group findings relate to other research? ; The focus group experiment in a historical context ; Must we give the visitors what they say they want? ; Response ; What's next for individual museums? ; What's next for the field? ; Complete texts of colloquium presentations. Report: What did the focus groups reveal? / Alan Newman ; Notes on art museum experiences / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ; Conceiving the art museum: some historical observations for the Getty Colloquium / Neil Harris. -- Part III. Museum project synopses. The Art Institute of Chicago ; The Brooklyn Museum ; The Cleveland Museum of Art ; Dallas Museum of Art ; Denver Art Museum ; The J. Paul Getty Museum ; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; The National Gallery of Art ; Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Seattle Art Museum ; The Toledo Museum of Art.
Alan Newman.

Summary:

Presents the findings from a research project involving 11 American art museums that joined forces to better understand themselves from the perspectives of their visitors.

Subject:

Art museums United States Public opinion Congresses.
Public opinion United States Congresses.
Art museum attendance United States Congresses.
Art museums Educational aspects United States Congresses.
Art museum visitors United States Attitudes Congresses.
Opinion publique États-Unis Congrès.
Musées d'art Fréquentation États-Unis Congrès.
Musées d'art Aspect éducatif États-Unis Congrès.
Visiteurs de musée d'art États-Unis Attitudes Congrès.
Art museum attendance
Art museums Educational aspects
Art museums Public opinion
Public opinion
United States
Museums - Visitors

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Conference papers and proceedings
video recordings (physical artifacts)
proceedings (reports)
Video recordings.
Vidéos.
Actes de congrès.

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Getty Center for Education in the Arts.
J. Paul Getty Museum.

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Location: Library main 85265
Call No.: ID:93-B161
Status: Available

Location: Library main 85264
Call No.: ID:93-B161
Status: Available

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