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• ISBN: 0415345561
• ISBN: 9780415345569
• ISBN: 041534557X
• ISBN: 9780415345576
• Physical Description: xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
• Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : meeting the demands placed on the twenty-first century museum -- Sect. 1. Museum audiences : their nature, needs and expectations -- 1. 'Traditional' museum audiences : a quantitative and qualitative analysis -- 2. Developing new audiences -- Sect. 2. Operating for quality -- 3. Stimulating the visit -- 4. Visitor services : operating for quality -- Sect. 3. Learning in museums -- 5. Museums and lifelong learning -- 6. Use of museums by schools -- Sect. 4. Planned to engage : using interpretation to develop museum displays and associated services -- 7. Applying the principles of interpretation to museum display -- 8. Interpretive master planning -- 9. Concept development for museum galleries -- 10. The engaging museum.

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Subject:

Museum attendance > Evaluation.
Museum exhibits > Evaluation.
Museums > Environmental aspects.
Museums > Marketing.
Museums > Management.
Museum techniques.
Museum visitors.
Interpretation of cultural and natural resources.
Cultural property > Protection.
Cultural property > Management.
Historic sites > Management.

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