MUSEUM USERS

Catalog description

Families, individuals and students visit museums and community institutions for a variety of purposes including leisure, education and curiosity. This course introduces students to the research and theory on museum user experience using a contextual approach to understanding museum users via the personal, socio-cultural and physical. This inquiry will involve examining notions of learning, engagement, and transformative experiences of users, characteristics of users, and the social dynamics of the museum experience. In addition, this course will review several programmatic techniques and methods used in museums to increase engagement and learning for visitors and take the student through all aspects of a museum visit, from beginning to end.