Structure of the session:
►Introduction
►Talk - Gail Symington - Head of Exhibitions
►Talk - Stephanie Stroh - Theatricality and Embodiment in Post Museum Practice
►Participation Observation
► self directed research in the museum
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►Talk - Gail Symington - Head of Exhibitions
• Target audience → 0 -7 years old and their families.
→ make the experience enjoyable to have comebacks
• A project that can make the experience more enjoyable;
•Master planing → Objectives. Ship + Ocean = Nation
• New children gallery;
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►Talk - Stephanie Stroh - Theatricality and Embodiment in Post Museum Practice
• Maritime museum → visitor research
→ narrative that capture the museum; story that tells the museum
• Post Museum → modernism museum; as a shire a colonizing space; a market driven industry.
• Visitor and experience → post museum → as a experience; Performance of the sea.
• Navigation → art of wave → find a way to observation and reaction and experience.
Museum as a part of the world.
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►Participation Observation
• Visitor studies → behavior; mapping; counting
→ audience segmentation; questionnaires (very important to know visitors thinking).
• non visitor surveys → importance of the research of the non visitor
reflexive / critical → behavior