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Excellent questions! Please post answers to the list.
Thanks,
Betty Brennan
Taylor Studios, Inc.
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Robert Handy wrote:
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> LyndaK wrote:
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> > Hi everyone! At the Australian Musuem in Sydney we are currently
> > looking at the idea of open collections. At the moment we use our
> > collections as the basis of many of our exhibitions, but like most of
> > you have a huge range of 'stuff' out of the public eye (both natural
> > history and anthropological collections).
> >
> > We have three questions of you all:
> > 1. Do visitors want to see museum collections? Has anyone conducted
> > any research into this?
> > 2. Would visitors come to museums more often if they knew they could
> > see more of our collections? Is there research/data supporting this?
> > 3. Any examples of other institutions that have undertaken this either
> > successfully or unsuccessfully? (we do have some literature already)
> >
> > I know there was a thread discussing this last year and I kept all the
> > responses but we're interested in these 3 questions in particular. I
> > will post a summary to the list if there's sufficient interest.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Lynda kelly, Evaluation Coordinator, Australian Museum, Sydney
> > [log in to unmask]
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