VISITOR EXPERIENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP
SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 7 AND REGISTRATIONS
STILL AVAILABLE
The deadline for submitting a scholarship application for the
California Association of Museums’ (CAM) Visitor Experience
Training workshop has been extended to Friday, October 7, 2005. Visitor Experience Training is the last workshop in CAM's 2005
Regional Workshop Series. This workshop will explore current educational and
visitor studies theory shaping museum experiences and how these theories can be
effectively applied to the floor. The goal is to provide a consistent
understanding of what museums do and reconcile that with visitors’
expectations and actual experiences. Through interactive exercises and real
gallery visits, participants will use Falk & Dierking’s
Interactive Experience Model to practice identifying parts of the visitor
experience; design an exhibit and a program using the theories of Howard
Gardner and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi;
and consider the move toward lifelong education in Falk & Dierking's new work Lessons
Without Limits and Guy Claxton’s Wiseup. The
workshop is presented by Lynn Rosamond Norris, Director of Visitor Relations at
COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts.
DATES/LOCATIONS
- Thursday, October 27, 2005, 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM, at
COPIA: The American Center for
Wine, Food, and the Arts in Napa
- Thursday, November 10, 2005, 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM, at
the UCLA Fowler Museum of
Cultural History in Los Angeles
The
registration fee of $50 for CAM members
or $75 for nonmembers includes workshop participation, additional
materials/resources, and a boxed lunch. Workshop reservations are honored on a
first-come, first-served basis. Please call the CAM office at
(831) 471-9970 with any questions you may have. Send in your registration
today at https://store3.fmpweb.com/cam_registration/registration.lasso!
Scholarships
are available for emerging museum professionals (with less than 5 years of
museum experience) and volunteers and staff members from small
institutions (with budgets less than $250,000). For additional information or
apply online, please click on http://www.calmuseums.org/regionalworkshops/scholarships.html.
CAM's 2005 Regional Workshop Series is supported in part by Wells Fargo
and the host museums.
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Celeste DeWald, Executive Director
California Association of Museums
P.O. Box 1455, Santa Cruz, CA 95061
Located
at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center
Office #: 831-471-9970 / FAX #:
831-471-9381
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: www.calmuseums.org
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UPCOMING 2005 REGIONAL WORKSHOPS
Visitor Experience Training: October
27, 2005 (Napa) & November 10, 2005 (Los Angeles)
2006 CAM
CONFERENCE
February 21-24, 2006 in Monterey