Hello to all,

 

 If you are with a museum that does not currently have a research/resource room please disregard this message.

 

 If you are with a museum that currently has a research/resource room please read on. This message is being sent to you in hopes of your participation in an online questionnaire. I am an intern at the Please Touch Museum®. We are a children’s museum in Philadelphia for children 7 years old and under. Our mission is learning though play. We are in the process of expanding and moving to Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. My main task at the museum is surveying other museums and surveying professionals on the use of a research/resource room.

 

The questionnaire asks about the planning and daily operations of your research/resource room. The questionnaire was designed so that the Please Touch Museum could take the appropriate steps to create a solid, functional, and well equipped Play Study Center. Planning intentions are focused on the exchange of information between parents, child caregivers, and professionals dealing with play in early childhood. The Play Study Center at the Please Touch Museum will be a place where professionals, parents or child caregivers can investigate and report on diverse topics and uses of play. The below questionnaire has only fifteen (15) questions and should not take much of your time at all. Your time and contribution is deeply valued and will have a lasting impression on our Play Study Center.   

 

Thank You,

     

Danielle Harrison

Please Touch Museum

Play Study Center Intern

 

 

 

 

 

Please Touch Museum®

Museum Resource/Research Room Questionnaire

 

This questionnaire was designed so that the Please Touch Museum could take the appropriate steps to create a solid, functional, and well equipped Play Study Center. Planning intentions are focused on the exchange of information between parents, child caregivers, and professionals dealing with play in early childhood.

The Play Study Center at the Please Touch Museum is a place where professionals, parents or child caregivers can investigate and report on diverse topics and uses of play.

Your involvement in this research is greatly appreciated and will have an enduring impression on our Play Study Center.

 

 

 

 

 

Please Touch Museum®

Museum Resource/Research Room Questionnaire

 

Please fill out the questions by copying this section to a new message then typing in your response and e-mailing the completed questionnaire back to [log in to unmask] as soon as possible.

 

1. How was the importance of a resource/research room determined? What process led to the decision?

 

 

 

2. What was involved in the planning of the resource/research room?  Feel free to mention anything you and others did.

 

 

 

3. Who was involved in planning and designing the resource/research room?  What were their roles?

 

 

 

 

4. How was its location chosen? Is it connected to or near the store? Are rest rooms and or water fountains nearby? Are you satisfied with its placement?

 

 

 

 

5. How was the resource/research room designed? What does it look like?  Describe

its important design features.

 

 

 

6. What changes or adjustments in planning and design happened along the way?

 

 

 

7. Is there a fee to use the services?  What is the cost?

 

 

 

8. How is it staffed? Are there any qualifying credentials that one must have to be staffed there? 

 

 

 

9. Who are the intended users of the resource/research room? Who actually uses the resource/research room?  How extensively do they use it?

 

 

 

10. Please describe what happens in your resource/research room.

 

 

 

11. What materials are offered?  What materials are most often used? Are the materials connected to the exhibits?  How?

 

 

 

12. Are these materials available to be lent out? How does the lending out process work? - Are you happy with this system?

 

 

 

 

13. Are you a collecting institution? Are there any collections displayed in the resource/research room? Do the collections tie into the exhibits in your gallery? How much space is allotted to the collections in the resource/research room? How often are the collections changed within the resource/research room, if at all?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14. Is your resource/research room child friendly? Are there children’s books or toys?

Are there any programs offered through the resource/research room? What types of programs are offered if any?

 

 

 

 

 

15. What aspects of the resource/research room have been the best?  What has worked less well?  Is there anything that you would change or add to the resource/research room and Why?

 

 

 

 

Thank You