Creating the Visitor-centered Museum

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By Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson

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Creating the Visitor-centered Museum explores how museums can transform to prioritise the visitor experience, making their offerings relevant to diverse audiences across ages, identities, and social classes. Drawing on a multi-year study of innovative American and European collections-based museums, authors Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson reveal the internal changes necessary to democratise institutions without compromising quality. The book includes detailed case studies, interviews with key personnel, and practical resources for museum professionals seeking to implement a visitor-centred approach.
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This insightful guide is ideal for museum professionals, educators, and students of museum studies or cultural management interested in evolving museums to be more inclusive and engaging for broad audiences.

Based on a multi-year, Kress Foundation–sponsored study of ten innovative American and European collections based museums recognized by their peers to be visitor centered, Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer these key questions for the field

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What does the transformation to a visitor-centred 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 required?

Based on a multi-year, Kress Foundation–sponsored study of ten innovative American and European collections-based museums recognised by their peers to be visitor-centred, Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer these key questions for the field. Creating the Visitor-centered Museum:

describes key institutions that have opened the doors to a wider range of visitors;
addresses the internal struggles to reorganise and democratise these institutions;
uses case studies, interviews of key personnel, Key Takeaways, and additional resources to help museum professionals implement a visitor-centred approach in collections-based institutions.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781629581903

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 December 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: Professional and scholarly

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Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 560g

Pages: 214

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Education & Reference Mimi Michaelson Non-Fiction Peter Samis Science & Nature

About the Author

Peter Samis is Associate Curator of Interpretation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has a BA from Columbia University and an M.A. in art history from U.C. Berkeley. Samis served as art historian/content expert for 'American Visions,' the first CD-ROM on modern art (1993-94), and then spearheaded development of SFMOMA’s award-winning Interactive Educational Technology programs. He has served as Adjunct Professor in the international graduate program for Technology-Enhanced Communication for Cultural Heritage (TEC-CH) at Switzerland's University of Lugano and on the advisory boards of numerous museum organizations and collaborative software initiatives. Mimi Michaelson is an education and museum consultant. She has a doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University, where she studied creativity, youth activism, and cognitive development. As a former Project Zero manager, she has broad research experience, including as Senior Project Manager of Harvard’s GoodWork project. She co-edited the New Directions volume, Supportive Frameworks for Youth Engagement.