Identity and the museum visitor experience / John H. Falk

By:

Falk, John H

Publication details: Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast, cop. 2009Description: 301 pISBN:

9781598741636

Summary: Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can affect people's lives. Personal drives, group identity, decision-making and meaning-making strategies, memory, and leisure preferences, all enter into the visitor experience, which extends far beyond the walls of the institution both in time and space. Drawing upon a career in studying museum visitors, renowned researcher John Falk attempts to create a predictive model of visitor experience, one that can help museum professionals better meet those visitors’ needs. He identifies five key types of visitors who attend museums and then defines the internal processes that drive them there over and over again. Through an understanding of how museums shape and reflect their personal and group identity, Falk is able to show not only how museums can increase their attendance and revenue, but also their meaningfulness to their constituents. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00320	1	Available		1900135861

Preface -- Part I. Theory: 1. Introduction: Museums and their visitors ; 2. The museum ; 3. The visitor ; 4. The visit ; 5. Satisfaction ; 6. Memories ; 7. The museum visitor experience model -- Part II. Practice: 8. Theory to practice ; 9. Attracting and building audiences ; 10. Making museums work for visitors ; 11. Institutional value and accountability -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the autor

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