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resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

The Audience Research Consortium of Toronto Art Gallery of Ontario

This paper provides an overview of the Audience Research Consortium of Toronto, comprised of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Metropolitan Toronto Zoo, the Ontario Science Center and the Royal Ontario Museum. These groups have a shared vision of attracting a larger and more diverse audience-one that includes nontraditional and multicultural groups. This paper outlines how this group developed, acquired funding, hired a consulting group, and created a proposal and research plan. Preliminary findings are also briefly summarized.

DATE: January 1, 1990

TEAM MEMBERS: Art Gallery of Ontario Royal Ontario Museum Ontario Science Centre Metropolitan Toronto Zoo Woods Gordon Management Consultants

resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

Sample Abstracts from the First Annual Visitor Studies Conference

This article features eight abstracts from the First Annual Visitor Studies Conference. Institutions represented in these abstracts include the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Science Learning, Inc., Hood Associates, Jacksonville State University, Smithsonian Institution, and University of Florida.

DATE: January 1, 1988

TEAM MEMBERS: G. Donald Adams John H Falk Marilyn G. Hood Donald Patterson Stephen Bitgood D.D. Hilke John Scott Foster John J. Koran, Jr. Mary Lou Koran Steven Start Ann Blackwood Harriet Landers

resource research Exhibitions

Pacific Science Center's Science Carnival Consortium Project: A Qualitative Evaluation

In this article, Lynn D. Dierking of Science Learning, inc. (SLi) discusses the summative evaluation of the Pacific Science Center's Science Carnival Consortium Project, a National Science Foundation funded program designed to assist new or developing science centers with opening and operating their institutions. The evaluation was designed to determine the extent to which the Science Carnival Consortium fulfilled its primary mission of facilitating the creation of these new science centers, as well as to assess the relative efficacy of the project as a model for future collaborative endeavors

DATE: January 1, 1997

TEAM MEMBERS: Lynn Dierking

resource research Public Programs

Two Models of Museum Collaboration: Potential Impacts on Visitor Behaviors

In this article, Ethan Allen (Teachers Academy for Mathematics & Science in Chicago) describes two types of museum collaborations and how they improve visitor experience through different modes. Allen discusses the Chicago Museum Exhibitors Group (CMEG) and the Museum Partners of Chicago's Urban Systemic Initiative as two models of museum collaboration.