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Daring to be Dramatic: An Examination of the Live Interpretation of Slavery at Living History Museums
This research identifies how two living history museums, at two different points in time, developed programming that specifically aligns with their property’s historic role in the American slave trade. In order to achieve ... -
Decision-Making at the Executive Level: How Boards of Trustees and Search Firms Hire Art Museum Executive Directors
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand the decision-making process of art museums when hiring executive directors. To understand this phenomenon, semi-structured interviews were conducted with board ... -
Decolonization and Databases: Examining Collections Management Systems and Decolonizing Practices
Decolonizing museum collections continues to be an important topic in the museum field, but limited research has been done on the efficacy of databases in terms of enhancing decolonizing practices. As such, the purpose of ... -
Decolonizing Natural History Museums Through Volunteer Engagement
In recent years, natural history museums have begun to place a greater importance on confronting their colonial pasts, and decolonization has become a popular topic of discussion among museum professionals. When a natural ... -
Deeply Connective Encounters with Museum Objects
(2012-09-13)Deeply connective encounters with museum objects are a significant yet under-studied phenomenon. These experiences are characterized by qualities such as transporting the person involved out of the flow of their daily life ... -
Defining the Characteristics of the Universal Museum: Missions, Collections, and Size
The purpose of this study is to identify and describe the characteristics of the universal museum as they apply to the institution's mission, collections, and overall size. The universal museum has continued to evolve since ... -
Differential Concerns: Perceived Benefits and Barriers to Visitation from the Mental Models of Museum Visitors and Non-Visitors.
Some people don’t like going to museums. Other people love going to museums but rarely go. Understanding what keeps these Non-Visitors and Occasional Visitors from being Frequent Visitors is a complicated issue. Any ... -
Do It Off Broadway: Exploring the Politics of Diversity and Inclusion in Museums Through Risk, Advocacy, and Queer Experience
What does it mean for museums to be diverse and inclusive? Does inclusion just mean representation, or does it also require a degree of institutional allyship and pursuit of change? This research study seeks to explore, ... -
Docent Remix: Profiles of Art Museum Docents in the Modern Museum
(2012-09-13)<bold>Abstract</bold> Museum scholarship has focused on the critical self-evaluation museums have undergone in the last century that has lead to a transformation of the museum paradigm. By shifting focus from operating as ... -
Does Money Matter? Visitor Awareness and Perception of Museum Funding Models
Recently, traditional sources of museum funding have seen significant shifts in availability and character. While debate about the benefits and challenges associated with these shifts continues, the conversation is part ... -
Does Music Matter to Museum Visitors?: Understanding the Effect of Music in an Exhibit on the Visitor Experience
The purpose of this study was to examine how music, used as an interpretive tool in a museum exhibit, affects the visitor’s experience. The study was a quasi-experimental investigation, utilizing a music condition and a ... -
Don't Forget to Play: Examining what Play looks like in Museums for Adult Visitors
While play in museums for children is not a new concept, there is little research on what play looks like for the adult visitor. This study investigates adult play in museum exhibits designed for family learning, using ... -
Early Childhood Learning in Preschool Planetarium Programs
(2013-07-25)Family groups comprise a significant percentage of the museum visitor population, and many programs are created specifically for young learners (Borun, 2008). One such learning environment is that of planetaria, where both ... -
Emergence of Special Art Exhibits in Shopping Malls in Shanghai
This paper described and analyzed the phenomena of joint ventures between shopping malls and special art exhibits in Shanghai. Little research directly addressed this phenomenon from the museum or exhibit perspective. Over ... -
Emerging Practices: Early Learning Experiences in Art Museums
Museum professionals are calling on institutions to provide quality learning experiences for young children. However, research concerning how this can be accomplished in art museums is limited. This study sought to describe ... -
Emerging Trends with Interactives in Art Museums
(2013-07-25)This research explores the emerging trend of art museums incorporating interactives into their galleries. Literature suggests advantages to having interactives, such as enhancing the learning experience, making the art ... -
Emotions at Play: Assessing Emotional Responses of Teenagers after they play "Papers, Please"
The purpose of this study was to assess and describe emotional responses of teenagers after playing “Papers, Please”, a game displayed at EMP’s Indie Game Revolution exhibit. Data was collected through interviews with 13 ... -
Empathy and Its Potential in Museum Practice
This research explores the museum community’s interest in empathy. While some museum professionals affirm empathy’s positive value, there are few resources that attempt to survey empathy in museum practice, let alone ... -
Empathy for Invertebrates: Adults' Empathic Behaviors at Aquarium Touch Tanks
In recent years, developing empathy for animals has become a strategy to encourage zoo and aquarium visitors to change their behavior in order to save the environment. However, it is much easier to feel empathy for charismatic ... -
Engaging with space in human rights and memorial museums
The goal of this research is to describe ways in which newly constructed human rights and memorial (memory) museums utilize architecture and design to create emotionally engaging visitor experiences. Research sites, ...