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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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.