ISSN:0011-3069    

DOI:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01048.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0011-3069    

DOI:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01049.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTSix natural history institutions contributed video and other images to produce a single multimedia exhibit about famous paleontology sites throughout the United States. InMesozoic Monsters, Mammals and Magnolias, users can view videos of the original excavation of each of the sites and also play computer games relating to each location. This project provides a model for how collaboration among museums can reduce the cost of multimedia exhibits while improving quality and making them available to wider audiences.

ISSN:0011-3069    

DOI:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01050.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTAs museum staff search for ways to broaden their audience, creative collaborations are emerging among various institutions with the hope that visitors who typically visit science centers, for example, will venture over to their local natural history museum. Typically, front‐end evaluation is used for understanding details about visitors in the context of a proposed exhibition. Front‐end evaluation can also help collaborating museums understand the nuances among theirvisitors regarding demographics, attitudes, and preferences for interpretive strategies. Carefully articulating the characteristics of the actual audience, potential audience, and target audience will help exhibit developers fine‐tune their exhibitions to meet the needs and expectations of a more diverse public. This article presents partial findings from a front‐end evaluation that analyzed the differences between visitors to natural history museums and science

ISSN:0011-3069    

DOI:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01051.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThe concept of meaning‐making is generating excitement within the museum community, with good reason. Providing an approach to understanding visitor experiences, the paradigm illuminates the visitor's active role in creating meaning of a museum experience through the context he/she brings, influenced by the factors of self‐identity, companions, and leisure motivations. As a result, visitors find personal significance within museums in a range of patterned ways that reflect basic human needs, such as the need for individualism and the need for community.The dynamics of visitor meaning‐making indicate the importance of fashioning a better “fit” between people and museums in two critical areas: (1) between human meaning‐making and museum methods and (2) between human needs and the purpose of museums in society. Each of these areas illuminates a promising direction for a new age of museums in which we actively support, facilitate, and enhance the many kinds of meaning possible in museums and explicitly incorporate human needs into exhibit goals and institutional missions. Examples of successful strategies ar

ISSN:0011-3069    

DOI:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01052.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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ABSTRACTThe role of museum director is increasingly discussed and reported inside and outside the museum community. Turnover grows as museum missions expand and funding sources and amounts decrease. Finding a new director who will be effective when confronted by these pressures requires a realistic assessment by the searching institution of the job to be done. That realistic assessment requires recognition — not necessarily agreement — by both staff and trustees of what the problems and priorities are. There is no perfect director. But there are effective directors. This essay addresses some of the issues facing boards, staffs, search firms, and candidates — as seen from the limited perspective of one p

ISSN:0011-3069    

DOI:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01053.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0011-3069    

DOI:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01054.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0011-3069    

DOI:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01055.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

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Book reviewed in this article:Harlem On My MindEdited by Allon Schoener. New York, NY: The New Press. 1995.Prototyping for the 21st Century, a DiscourseBy Joost J. Douma. Amsterdam, Holland: IMPULS Technologie Museum, NINT, 1994. 65 pages + 18‐page, illustrated Presentation Fact Sheets. Appendix, bibliography, index. Spiral bound. IMPULS Technologie Museu

ISSN:0011-3069    

DOI:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01056.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0011-3069    

DOI:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01057.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY