Visitor Studies: Best Practice on a Budget
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
4th November
10:30am to 4pm
Visitor
Studies at its best is embedded across public engagement organisations and
practices, and is a crucial part of producing innovative and exciting public
offers, improving existing exhibits and programmes, and developing our working
practices. But with budget cuts across museums, galleries, zoos and science
centres, how can visitor studies practitioners maximise their value?
This event focuses on why visitor studies are even more vital to public engagement organisations in a recession. With workshops exploring the fundamental role of visitor studies, on how to maximise visitor research on tight budgets and the value of consultants versus in-house visitor studies, as well as a visitor studies surgery, this event is designed to help all visitor studies practitioners survive the recession intact! Join us this November in Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum to develop your skills, network and learn how to deliver best practice on a budget.
Workshop leaders:
Monica Callaghan: Head of Education, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow.
Sam Groves: Project Visitor Studies Curator, Riverside Museum Project, Glasgow Museums.
Sheena Muncie: Director, Scotinform.
Helen Featherstone: At-Bristol and the University of the West of England, Bristol.
Emily Dawson: Science and Technology Education Group, King’s College London.
Who is it for?
People
interested in Visitor Studies from Museums, Science Centres, Galleries, Zoos
and other public engagement organisations as well as students, audience
researchers and freelancers who want to find out more about how visitor
research can inform interpretation and foster decision-making to the benefit of
their institutions.
Benefits for attendees:
· Opportunities for learning about the crucial role Visitor Studies can play for engagement institutions in a recession.
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