Skip to main content

The Engaging Museum: Developing Museums for Visitor Involvement (The Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)

by Graham Black

33 Members ½ (3.50)

On This Page

Recommendations

Author Information

Classifications

Description

This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards. This holistic approach will be immensely helpful to museums in meeting the needs and expectations of visitors and show more building their audience. This book features:includes chapter introductions show less

Tags

Recommendations

The Manual of Museum Exhibitions by Barry Lord

The Manual of Museum Exhibitions

The Museum Experience Revisited by John H. Falk

The Museum Experience Revisited

Collections Management (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) by Anne Fahy

Collections Management (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies)

Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift by Gail Anderson

Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift

Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach by Beverly Serrell

Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach

Beverly Serrell

Interpreting Our Heritage by Freeman Tilden

Interpreting Our Heritage

The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon

The Participatory Museum

Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums [2nd ed.] by Edward P. Alexander

Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums [2nd ed.]

Edward P. Alexander

Museum, Media, Message (Museum Meanings) by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Museum, Media, Message (Museum Meanings)

Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture (Museum Meanings) by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture (Museum Meanings)

Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Museums and their Communities by Sheila Watson

Museums and their Communities

A Companion to Museum Studies by Sharon MacDonald

A Companion to Museum Studies

Sharon MacDonald

Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display by Steven D. Lavine

Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

Steven D. Lavine

Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums [1st ed.] by Edward P. Alexander

Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums [1st ed.]

Edward P. Alexander

New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction by Janet Marstine

New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction

The Social Work of Museums by Lois H. Silverman

The Social Work of Museums

Lois H. Silverman

The Educational Role of the Museum (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

The Educational Role of the Museum (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies)

Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge (Heritage: Care-preservation-management) by Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge (Heritage: Care-preservation-management)

Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

Introduction to Museum Work, 3rd edition by G. Ellis Burcaw

Introduction to Museum Work, 3rd edition

G. Ellis Burcaw

Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference by Richard Sandell

Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference

Richard Sandell

Making Museums Matter by Stephen E. Weil

Making Museums Matter

Stephen E. Weil

Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries by David Carrier

Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries

Museums, Society, Inequality (Museum Meanings) by Richard Sandell

Museums, Society, Inequality (Museum Meanings)

Richard Sandell

The Museum Experience by John H. Falk

The Museum Experience

Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art by Bruce Altshuler

Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art

Bruce Altshuler

Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum by Donald Preziosi

Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum

Donald Preziosi

Interpreting Objects and Collections (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) by Susan Pearce

Interpreting Objects and Collections (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies)

Museums in the Material World (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) by Simon Knell

Museums in the Material World (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies)

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, 2nd Edition by Marie C. Malaro

A Legal Primer on Managing Museum Collections, 2nd Edition

Marie C. Malaro

Museum Basics by Timothy Ambrose

Timothy Ambrose

Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning (American Association for State and Local History) by John H. Falk

Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning (American Association for State and Local History)

Civilizing the Museum: The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian by Elaine Heumann Gurian

Civilizing the Museum: The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian

Elaine Heumann Gurian

Thinking About Exhibitions by Bruce W. Ferguson

Thinking About Exhibitions

Bruce W. Ferguson

Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits by Kenneth L. Ames

Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits

Kenneth L. Ames

Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium by Andrew McClellan

Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium

Andrew McClellan

Museum Exhibition (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management) by David Dean

Museum Exhibition (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management)

Museums and the Future of Collecting by Simon J. Knell

Museums and the Future of Collecting

Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (Media and Society) by Daniel Sherman

Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (Media and Society)

Learning in the Museum (Museum Meanings) by George E. Hein

Learning in the Museum (Museum Meanings)

Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies by John E. Simmons

Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies

John E. Simmons

The New Museology by Peter Vergo

The New Museology

Museum Revolutions: How museums change and are changed by Simon J. Knell

Museum Revolutions: How museums change and are changed

Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience by John H. Falk

Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience

Interpreting Historic House Museums (American Association for State and Local History) by Jessica Foy Donnelly

Interpreting Historic House Museums (American Association for State and Local History)

Jessica Foy Donnelly

Do Museums Still Need Objects? (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America) by Steven Conn

Do Museums Still Need Objects? (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America)

Historic House Museums: A Practical Handbook for Their Care, Preservation, and Management by Sherry Butcher-Younghans

Historic House Museums: A Practical Handbook for Their Care, Preservation, and Management

Sherry Butcher-Younghans

Museums, Objects, and Collections by Susan M. Pearce

Museums, Objects, and Collections

Susan M. Pearce

The Digital Museum: A Think Guide by Herminia Din

The Digital Museum: A Think Guide

Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums by Carol Duncan

Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums

Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage by James Cuno

Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage

Complete Recommendations

Member Reviews

Featured Recent Thumbs

0 reviews

Ratings

Members

Recently Added By: sbthp_prc, JuanitaVassallo, ozfiztheweird, GunstonHall, Studio-C102-lib, Imhotep, tim_walsh, hatingongodot, daniele.savasta, zoehendon

Author Information

Picture of author.

3 Works 53 Members

Series

Belongs to Publisher Series

Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

Statistics

Members: 33
Popularity: 860,427
Rating: ½ (3.50)

Languages: English
Media: Paper, Ebook
ISBNs: 5
ASINs: 1

Quick Facts

Published: 2005
Genres: Nonfiction, Business, Art & Design, History
DDC/MDS: 069
LCC: AM7 .B56

Author

Picture of author.

3 Works 53 Members

Popular Covers

Find It

Links

No links

Ratings

Stars: ½ (3.50)

Click to expand

Click to reduce

Helpers

Verdana Standard Verdana Small The Lorax System Standard System Large Georgia Large Text Atkinson