Museums and their visitors / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill.

Main entry:

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean, 1945-

Title & Author:

Museums and their visitors / Eilean Hooper-Greenhill.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Description:

xv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

The heritage

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index.
1. Forces for change -- 2. Communication in theory and practice -- 3. Who goes to museums? -- 4. Research and evaluation -- 5. Welcoming visitors -- 6. Responding to visitor needs -- 7. Language and texts -- 8. Museums: ideal learning environments -- 9. Managing museums for visitors.

Summary:

Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and galleries must demonstrates their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service functions through becoming more knowledgeable about the needs of their visitors and more adept at providing enjoyable and worthwhile experiences. Museums and their Visitors aims to help museums and galleries in this crucial task. It examines the ways in which museums need to develop their communicative functions and, with examples of case-studies, explains how to achieve best practice. The special needs of a number of target audiences including schools, families and people with disabilities are outlined and illustrated by examples of exhibition, education and marketing policies. The book looks in detail at the power of objects to inspire and stimulate and analyses the use of language in museums and galleries.
This is the first book to be written to guide museum and gallery staff in the development of provision for their visitors. It will be of interest to students of museum, heritage and leisure and tourism studies, as well as to international museum professionals.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415068576 (acid-free paper)
9780415068574 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Museum attendance.
Museums Environmental aspects.
Museum techniques.
Museums Management.
Museum visitors.
Museums.
Museums Educational aspects.
Musées Fréquentation.
Musées Aspect éducatif.
Muséologie.
Musées Gestion.
Musées Aspect de l'environnement.
Visiteurs de musée.
Musées.
museology.
museums (institutions)
museum administration.
Museumbeheer.
Bezoekers.
Museumkunde.
Museus.
Servico educativo em museus.
Musées Publics.
Musées Administration.

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Heritage.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 91911
Call No.: ID PLS AM7.H67; ID:95-B654
Status: Available

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