> We have people that use the facility for rentals, and we don¹t count them as
> visitors unless they go into the museum itself. No  matter which area they go
> to; children¹s museum, main museum, they are counted only once.  We often have
> large ³free day² functions for kids etc, that pulls in 1,000 people for that
> event.. And we definitely count all those!
> 
> We were discussing at our staff meeting how to better count our visitors.  We
> wondered what other facilities do.
>  
> We have visitors to our museum, planetarium, and observatory; organizations
> who use our banquet/conference hall:  school groups;    and those who visit a
> combination thereof.
> We wondered how other facilities count these people.  If they come to the
> museum and then go
> to the planetarium are they counted 2 times?  If it is a school group and they
> do the museum educational program, planetarium and observatory is each child,
> teacher, parent volunteer counted 3 times?  If they are coming to see a
> planetarium progam and spend 1 minute in the museum are they counted 2 times.
> If they come in, leave and return are they counted 2 times?
> Or as they enter the building is that the only time they are counted.
>  
> Does anyone know of a research project on this?
>  
> Thanks for your help,
> Phyllis Oppenheim
> Collections Manager


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