Description

Theme 1 - Visitors

On the relation of museum to its communities of users.

• Visitor diversity in the inclusive museum
• Defining museum stakeholders and measuring participation
• The politics of heritage: national, regional, ethnic, diasporic and first nation identities
• Multilingualism: accessibility for small languages and cultures
• Gender and sexual orientation in the museum
• Disability access in the museum
• Competing cultures: high, folk, popular, techno-scientific
• Public trust: re-establishing the bases of ‘authority’
• Defining the ‘education’ and ‘communications’ roles of museums
• Pedagogy as presentation or dialogue: how the museum relates to its visitors
• The ubiquitous museum: towards the anywhere anytime learning resource
• Competing pleasures: museums against or with ‘entertainment’ and ‘edutainment’
• Cross connections: with schools, with universities
• Sponsorship and philanthropy: logics and logistics
• The economics of admissions
• Memberships: changing roles and demographics
• Voluntarism and professionalism: calibrating the mix
• Government stakeholders (local, state, national, transnational): museums in politics and navigating government funding and policies