Dear Paul,

I think repeat visitation can be a benchmark.  By repeat visitation I mean
people who come with their families regularly to the museum.  We have
visitors/members at our museum who come once every week, like clockwork.

Dora Chiu
exhibits and programming manager
Children's Own Museum


>From: nima numa <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: The most important attributes for a MUSEUM????
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:57:43 +1100
>
>Hello all!
>
>i am currently studying a MA in cultural heritage management and for my
>thesis i have decided to analysis 'what makes a museum successful' or more
>importantly how can we guage the 'successfulness' or the 'failure' of
>museums.  For this study i will be invesitgating a number of different
>museums in the UK ie. museums that are govt funded, privately funded, or
>run
>totally by volunteers and donations.  I am supposing that each individual
>museum will have a particular guage to fathom their 'success' or 'failure'.
>This information will form part of the analysis of my thesis - how can i
>say
>whether a museum is a hit or a miss affair?  One can not rely on audience
>figures or audience comments solely - or can we?
>
>I am interested in your opinions - how do you judge your approach - by
>attendance figures or by what methods? What do you think makes a successful
>museum - the displays, the intrepation of exhibits, attendance figures,
>conservation techniques - etc.
>what do you think are the most important elements any museum must have?
>
>Any information you would like to share would be greatly appreciated.
>
>thanking you in advance for you help with my studies
>
>kind regards
>
>paul willis
>
>
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