This is very interesting and I would love to see any data acquired, not only
form a professional point of view, but because my in-laws fit this age band
(b. 1929 and 1931), and although American, are not at all interested in
museums.  I have always attributed it to the upbringing on farms in rural
Arkansas and Mississippi although both have a college education, and one a
graduate degree.  This adds a fascinating aspect.
Lori Allen,
Grad Student, UMSL


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Subject: CHILD VISITORS INTO ADULT VISITORS?


Very interesting query.

Nothing scientific, but it has been commented on by several people
(including myself in "Museums 2000: Politics, Professionals, People,
Profit " which I edited - Routledge, 1992) that successive British studies
over a period of a couple of decades suggest that there was an age cohort
across the whole population which is consistently below average in
comparison with other 10 year age bands in terms of levels of museum and
related visiting.

This group was of people born between 1930 and 1939, the majority of whom
would have been of school age during World War II, when museums and
schools were closed, displaced or otherwise disrupted. The inference drawn
was that a significant percentage of the cohort never developed the
museum-going habit as children and never caught it in later years.



Patrick Boylan

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 00:00:57 +0000 (GMT)
From: P Boylan <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: your mail

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Hi my name is Morgan Smith. I am a museum education student at Bank Street
College and I am working on my intermship at the Children’s Museum of
Manhattan. I am doing a research for a proposal and I have run into trouble
documenting some information that I belive to be true. I am trying to
substantiate a claim that the attendance of people to museums as children
will lead to their increased attendance when they are adults. If anyone
knows of any related studies or articles that validate this claim it would
help me greatly in my work. Thank you for your help.
>
> Morgan Smith

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