Family Spaces in Art Museums - Creating Curiosity, Wonder, and Play (Paperback)

Families are a critical audience for art museums and museums use many different strategies for reaching families, such as special family days and festivals, workshops, special tours, family backpacks and gallery guides, in-gallery materials or demonstration carts, and specific family galleries. Here is a practical guide based on research that helps art museum educators understand the role and value of spaces designed for families and helps them to create dedicated spaces for intergenerational play and learning. This book features insights, best practices, and lessons learned from years of experience in creating dedicated spaces for families in a wide range of art museums. Through case studies, in-depth stories, and engaging graphics and images this book identifies key issues that museum professionals need to consider when developing family spaces in museums. This book is a how-to guide to creating or updating an interactive family space. Everything you need to know, soup to nuts, from understanding your audience to hiring a designer and opening your doors to the public is here. Each section is situated within groundbreaking visitor research findings and how museum educators have used those findings to better understand the family audience and develop fun, safe, inclusive, spaces that inspire wonder and curiosity, as well as places for meaning-making and family bonding, all in the service of creating loyal and committed museum visitors.

General

Imprint:	American Alliance of Museums
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	American Alliance of Museums
Release date:	2022
Authors:	Julia Forbes • Marianna Adams
As told to:	Jeanine Ancelet
Dimensions:	268 x 216 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	112
ISBN-13:	978-1-5381-4885-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5381-4885-4
Barcode:	9781538148853

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