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Audience Research and Evaluation
Rethinking Experience Design for a New Reality
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. Presented by: The AAM Professional Networks – Committee on Audience research & Evaluation and …
The Future of Museum Evaluation after COVID‐19
This is a recorded session from the 2020 AAM Virtual Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. How will the COVID‐19 pandemic impact the ways we conduct research and evaluation? Join evaluators in …
CARE-apy: Psychological Science and the Visitor Experience
When visitors leave a museum, in what ways are they different than when they walked in? What intellectual connections did visitors make with the ideas and artifacts with which they …
CAREapy: Expanding COVES to Art Museums
The Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies (COVES) is designed to unite museums in systematically collecting audience-level data with a focus on institutional and field-wide …
A Deeper Model of Community Co-Creation
Museums often talk about reaching out to communities, or co-creating with community members, for an exhibition or project. But often in these cases, the formula is lopsided in favor the …
CAREapy: Research With, Not On: Engaging in Authentic Collaboration with Communities
In 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and the subsequent national and worldwide protests, along with too many other events to list, drew attention to systemic …
How the Delaware Art Museum is Centering Community Voices in Interpretive Planning
In 2018, the Delaware Art Museum (DelArt) began a radically inclusive approach to reinstallation planning, integrating community voices at every stage through focus groups, iterative …
Virtual Programs for Children—What Do Parents Want Now?
After of year of chaos, anguish, and reflection, the world is entering a new phase—perhaps “post-pandemic,” maybe the “new normal”—it will take a while to settle on the right label. Last …
Empathy Interventions: Mia Experiments with Cultivating Empathy in Museum Visitors
Can the visual arts foster empathy and understanding? From our experiences as art museum educators, we believe they can, but there is little empirical research to support this theory. So, …
Social Media Benchmarking: Evaluation Projects in Action at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Watch this recorded webinar in which the Cleveland Museum of Art shares how they undertook a dedicated exploration into new metrics for social media benchmarking upon the museum’s temporary …
Essential Evaluators: Answering COVID Questions
Essential Evaluators seeks to gather evaluators in a common space to dialogue, reflect, and support each other in a world upended by COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter protest movement. …
Using Local Data to More Fully Understand the Visitor Experience During COVID
At Thanksgiving Point Institute—a farm, garden, and museum complex in Lehi, Utah—we’ve been wondering how visitor agendas are changing during the current health crisis. Understanding …