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July 10-11, 2009

Exhibition Evaluation: Strategies for Implementing the Results of Visitor
Studies

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

San Marino, CA

 

Does evaluation seem too costly, too time-consuming, or worse, not
worthwhile?  This RAP presents two recent projects in which evaluation
played a critical role in exhibition development through assessing visitor
engagement and comprehension.  The exhibitions, one botanical and one
historical, each went on to receive the Excellence in Exhibitions awards
from the American Association of Museums, in part due to the evaluation
process.

 

In this intensive workshop, you will visit both exhibitions and make direct
links between them and how staff used evaluation to meet their own goals,
implement specific changes spurred by evaluation, and the processes the
evaluators used that supported exhibition development.  

Use this professional training RAP to learn about the methods, pitfalls, and
actions taken by the development teams with the goal of developing clear
strategies for evaluating your own exhibitions.  

 

For more information and to register, contact Kitty Connolly at
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For more professional development opportunities and resources, visit
http://www.astc.org/profdev/index.htm.

Do you have a great idea for a RAP? Please contact me about how you can host
your own RAP!

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Wendy Hancock

Manager, Exhibition Services

Association of Science-Technology Centers

1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 500

Washington, DC  20005-6301 USA

202/783-7200 x117 Fax 202/783-7207

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