Hello dear listers,

My name is Matthijs Keesman and I´m currently working on a project to create
an exhibitionhall for the 21th century for a museum in Haarlem, The
Netherlands. For this project we are researching how internet/computer
facilities work within musea.

At this moment I´m very curious to hear the stories of those people who have
experience with Internetfacilities or Internet reading rooms in musea,
particulary according to the following questions:

A. Do internetfacilities attract visitors at all? Is it a new audience or an
existing audience?
B. Is everything that can be accessed in the museum accessible through the
internet? Are there any extra goodies offered?
C. Do people actually spend more time with these facilities or do they
cannibalize ( i.e. spend less time in shop, restaurant or the collection)
D. What is the most common problem with the internet terminals?
E. How would you define the function of these internetfacilities in relation
to the museum?

It would help me a lot if anyone could share his or her ideas or experiences
to one or more of these questions.
Thanks.

Kind regards,


Matthijs Keesman
Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam
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