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Smithsonian Institution What are we doing anyway? What are we doing anyway? The Problem of the Effectiveness of Museums Zahava D. Doering Editor, Curator: The Museum Journal Senior Social Scientist, Smithsonian Institution Federation of International Human Rights Museums Conference 11 October 2011 International Slavery Museum

Smithsonian Institution Synopsis Current Museums & Practice Approach to Visitors Research Results Summary: Individuals in Museums Goal for Museums: Individual Perspective Memorial Museums as Special Category Definitions Context Societal vs. Individual Needs Summary Caveat

Smithsonian Institution Current Museums & Practice  Visitors as Novices

Smithsonian Institution But… we should view Visitors as Experts

Smithsonian Institution Research Results Summary – Individuals  Visitors make use of museums for their own purposes and from varying perspectives. The museum can influence these outcomes but not control them.

Smithsonian Institution Visitors make use of museums... … often in ways that staff don't expect or consider

Smithsonian Institution For their own purposes... … meeting real needs, many of them not explicit

Smithsonian Institution From varying perspectives… i.e., the experience, knowledge and attitudes visitors arrive with

Smithsonian Institution The museum can influence visitor outcomes but not control them...

Smithsonian Institution Proposed Effectiveness Goal Museums, like many other heritage attractions, are essentially experiential products, quite literally constructions to facilitate experience. In this sense, museums are about facilitating feelings and knowledge based upon personal observation or contact by their visitors.  Prentice (1996 )

Smithsonian Institution Memorial Museums: Definitions

Smithsonian Institution Memorial Museums: Context

Smithsonian Institution Memorial Museums vs. Individuals The agendas of memorial museums and the agendas of individuals who visit them are likely to be divergent

Smithsonian Institution Memorial Museums vs. Individuals

Smithsonian Institution Summary  “Trust your mission, but also trust your visitor. Your goal is not to replicate yourself and your idea in the mind of the visitor, but to present your visitor with a tool and then to watch, and to learn from what she does with it.  …But to have real impact, big ideas [presented by museums] must also be adapted to the vast range of conditions in which people actually lead their lives.  The museum must trust its visitors to make those creative adaptations, for each visitor knows her personal world in ways the museum cannot.” Rounds (2011)

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