I'd suggest contacting any children's museum in a large
urban area - for example, the Boston Children's Museum - and ask how they deal
with visitation during rainy days in the summer. Especially if there are
children's recreational programs, who look for inclement weather activities and
show up with a high ratio of children to adults.
Hi Everyone!
I am currently working on a visitor study for the Baseball Hall of
Fame. For the past eight summers, Little Leaguers and their families
have traveled to Cooperstown to participate in "Dreams Park" baseball
tournaments as well as several other camps. The Dreams Park alone hosts 96 ten
and twelve-year-old teams over the course of 12 weeks during the summer, and
almost every participant visits the Hall of Fame during their week long stay.
This presents difficulties given our already high number of summer visitors, and
due to the fact that many of the teams visit the museum with an abnormally high
number of children to adults.
The goal of our visitor study is to understand the impact of Dreams Park
and other camps on the museum, and to provide suggestions and concrete examples
of ways to deal with the challenges these visitors present. We
want create a positive experience for both the Little League families as
well as the other visitors to the museum during the summer months.
I would appreciate if anyone could share
their experiences with similar types of visitors or suggest possible
museums for benchmarking purposes.
Thanks!
Stephen Light
Steele Intern
National Baseball Hall of Fame and
Museum
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