1. Audience, a central target?
A debate on audience starting from my experience in Palais de la découverte
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3. Audience
abracca
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4. Who are the visitors of Science centers – Technical museums
Scholar groups
General audience
Categories (students, engineers,retired, disabled)
Non usual visitors
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5. Some factors to increase audience
The place
Spectacular topics
Interactivity
Events
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6. Some key words…
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7. The benefits of a large audience
Visible for authorities
Visible for public
Visible for medias
Income
Communication
Access to network of « great exhibitions »
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8. The disavantadges of a large audience
Adaptation of the museum
Number of employees
Museology
Disney park ?
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9. The balance The ICOM definition of a museum : open The self financing
A stimulation for employees
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10. What about deontology ?
Last annual meeting of the french committee of ICOM was dedicated to deontology, particularly on the topic of due respect to human remains.
Can we show everything to attract a very large audience ?
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11. Thanks !
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