Re: Nicola Brooke's request for museum visitors' book statistics/feedback material that might be relevant to her proposed BA Hons Arts History thesis on "Museums and the Internet".
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Have a look at the Colditz Castle and Museum Home Page Visitors Book at:
http://www.cimttz.tu-chemnitz.de/colditz

The Colditz Home Page, in existence for just over two years, and a joint Saxon and Anglo-Saxon effort,  aims to attract visitors to the town, its castle and its museum and to act as an Internet Gateway to Saxony. So far there have been about 18,000 visits to the page and 598 entries in the visitor's book. The entries provide some "raw material" that might provide you with the basis of a case history. It is quite interesting how many entries indicate a planned future visit.

The Home Page and its visitors' book is proving a very economic way for the town and its museum to make contact with a very scattered potential visiting public and I think could well be copied by others. It does of course require quite a lot of follow up in getting in touch with individuals when they want information. Being able to see all the other entries is of course an essential feature of a visitors' book. 

You will see that much of the interest centres round the Escape Museum, wartime POW art and Pat Reid's book "The Colditz Story" but it is also quite interesting to find how many individuals are wanting to make contact with their Saxon roots.

I would be most pleased to provide additional background information off list should you so wish.

Good luck with your thesis!

Antony Anderson
Keeper of the Colditz Home Page Visitors' Book
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Colditz Gateway to Saxony
http://www.cimttz.tu-chemnitz.de/colditz

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Sent:   02 April 1998 15:18
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Subject:        website visitor stats

Nicola Brookes
N T Brookes
50 Northernhay St, Exeter, ex4 3er, UK
00 44 +1392 250 373