CREATING THE VISITOR

What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visit ors of varying ages, identities, and social classes? Does appealing to a larger audience force museums to dumb down their work? Wh at internal changes are required? Based on a multi-year, Kress Foundationsponsored study of ten innovative American and European co llections based museums recognized by their peers to be visitor centered, Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer these key questions for the fi...[Read more]