Creating the visitor-centered museum /

What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ages, identities, and social classes? Does appealing to a larger audience force museums to "dumb down" their work? What internal changes are re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Samis, Peter S. (Author), Michaelson, Mimi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Considering the visitor
  • Change takes leadership
  • Contours of change
  • Case studies
  • Charting history
  • Denver Art Museum: building a sustainable visitor-centered practice
  • Engaging through audience immersion
  • City Museum: the power of play
  • Ruhr Museum: connecting through adaptive reuse and design
  • Minnesota History Center: lessons from a learning team
  • Re-invigorating traditional museums
  • Detroit: re-inventing a landmark museum with and for visitors
  • Oakland Museum of California: including a diverse public
  • Columbus Museum of Art: museum as community living room
  • Creating social change
  • Kelvingrove: museum as cultural commons
  • Taking a critical stance on museum practice
  • Van Abbe Museum: radicality meets hospitality
  • MCA Denver: art experience over art objects
  • Conclusion: varieties of visitor-centeredness and change.