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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).
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> Thanks in advance.
> Lynda kelly, Evaluation Coordinator, Australian Museum, Sydney
> [log in to unmask]
Contact the Colorado Historical Society in Denver (don't know their
E-mail address or if they even have e-mail). They are establishing, or
by now have, an open collections.
Bob Handy
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