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 > > >_________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > >========================================================= >Important Subscriber Information: > >The Museum-L FAQ file is located at >http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed >information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail >message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should >read "help" (without the quotes). > >If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to >[log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff >Museum-L" (without the quotes). _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).