Museum Tour Research Articles

Bridging art viewing and making: Constructivist museum tour and workshop programmes

The purpose of this study is to investigate how constructivist approaches are conceptualized and implemented in ‘gallery tour and studio workshop’ educational programmes at art museums, and the relationship that exists between the gallery and studio learning for children. A qualitative multi-case study was employed, and three art museums were involved. Data collection methods included programme observations, participant interviews, photos and museum documents. The findings of the study offer examples of educators’ teaching approaches, which reflect constructivist tenets, as well as factors that might strengthen the connection across gallery and studio learning. An inviting learning environment, consideration of students’ prior knowledge and experience, use of themes and motivating questions and facilitation of reflections, as well as educators’ collaboration all promoted well-connected tour and workshop programmes. This study offers insights and strategies to interested museum professionals and educators who aim to provide children with meaningful and well-connected art-viewing and art-making programmes.

How to Use Challenge-Based Learning for the Acquisition of Learning to Learn Competence in Early Childhood Preservice Teachers: A Virtual Archaeological Museum Tour in Spain

This article presents the research results in relation to an interdisciplinary teaching innovation project—Teaching and Learning of Social Sciences and Teaching and Learning of Natural Sciences—with Early Childhood Preservice Teachers (ECPT) at the University of Alcalá (Spain) in the pandemic context by COVID-19 during 2020–2021 (N = 55): 52 women (94.55%) and 3 men (5.45%) from 20 to 22 years of age. The main research problem is to know if the ECPT improves the learning to learn competence after a challenge-based learning (CBL) linked to virtual tour in a museum. The main objective was to improve the learning to learn competence, during a virtual tour at the Community of Madrid Regional Archaeological Museum (MAR) (Alcalá de Henares, Spain) for a reflective training of students to understand problems of the past and present and future global challenges, promote collaborative and multidisciplinary work, and defend ethics and leadership. In order to ascertain the level of acquisition of this competence in those teachers who were being trained, their self-perception—pretest–posttest—of the experience was assessed through a system of categories adapted from the European Commission. ECPT worked, in small groups and using e/m-learning tools, ten challenges and one storytelling cooperatively with university teachers to solve prehistoric questions related to current situations and problems. Subsequently, two Early Childhood Education teachers from a school in Alcalá de Henares reviewed the proposals and adapted them for application in the classroom of 5-year-old boys and girls. The results show an improvement in this competence in Early Childhood Preservice Teachers: total score pre-post comparison paired-samples Wilcoxon test result shows a statistically significant difference (p> 0.001); an evaluation rubric verified the results of self-perception. Second, we highlight the importance of carrying out virtual museum tours from a challenge-based learning for the development of big ideas, essential questions, challenges, and activities on socioeconomic, environmental, and emotional knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Third, this experience shows the insufficient educational adaptation of the virtual museum tour to the Early Childhood Education stage from a technological and didactic workshops point of view, but there is a diversity of paleontological and archaeological materials and a significant sociocritical discourse.

An Instructional Planning and Implementation of a Museum Tour Addressing Multiple Intelligences for First Graders

Contemporary museums are not only places where collections are protected and exhibited; they are also effective and efficient learning and teaching environments. However, both contemporary and traditional museums need to be improved in terms of their educational functions. This study planned and implemented a museum tour addressing multiple intelligences for first graders at primary school with the purpose of demonstrating an effective museum tour. The convenience sampling method was used for determining the participants of the study. The researcher, together with 5 primary school teachers, 120 first-grade students and 44 undergraduates from the Department of Primary Education at the Faculty of Education participated in the study. This study was designed as action research, which is one of the qualitative research designs. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, observations, and student-recalled questionnaires. The study showed that the teachers’ and the undergraduates’ thoughts about the planning and implementation were mostly positive, especially in terms of students’ motivation, detail planning and the undergraduates’ role of the implementation as qualified staff. Moreover, the findings related to the students’ learning indicated that it was stored in their long-term memory. As a result of the study, the museum tour plan addressing multiple intelligences for first graders will be an example of effective museum education for teachers and museum educators in various ways.

PENGARUH PROMOSI DAN KUALITAS PELAYANAN TERHADAP MINAT BERKUNJUNG WISATAWAN DOMESTIK KE MUSEUM SURABAYA

Surabaya City currently lacks of potential natural tourism, Surabaya needs new alternative tourism to increase tourists to visit Surabaya by making museum tours become a tourist attraction. One of the factors that influencing tourists to visit are the promotion factor and service quality. This research was conducted to find out the influence of promotion and service quality towards interest to visit to museum Surabaya. The promotion aims to provide & attract tourists to visit. The quality of service is needed so that tourists feel comfortable to visit the museum and desire to revisit museum. The accidental sampling technique used by distributing questionnaires to 100 local tourists who visiting the museum . Multiple linear regression was used to measure the effect of independent variables on the dependent variable using SPSS version 24.0. The results of this research showed that the promotion variable (X1) does not partially had a positive and significant effect on tourit interest (Y) with t-count 1,629 < t-table 1,984. Service quality variable (X2) partially had a positive and significant effect with t-count 6,907 > t-table 1,984.Promotion variable (X1),and service quality variable (X2) simultaneously have a positive and significant effect with F-count 35,561 > F-table 3.939. Based on the results of multiple linear regression test, obtained the regression equation is Y = 13,849 + 0,200 X1 + 0,366 X2 + e with the correlation coefficient of 0.650 and the determination coefficient of 0.411 (41,1%).

THE IMPACT OF VIRTUAL TOURS ON MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS AFTER THE ONSET OF Covid-19 restrictions: visitor engagement and long term PERSPECTIVES

After the outbreak of Covid-19, galleries and museums have been experimenting with new ways to engage a potential audience remotely. This study focuses on the level of engagement of virtual tours in museums looking at the representation of architectural space, representation artifacts, and ease of use as possible correlated factors. A sample group of eighty early-career experts in the field of art, architecture, or design assessed their visit to the archaeological museum of Troya Muzesi in Canakkale, Turkey;half of the participants resided in Turkey, while the other half in Italy. This paper has addressed the following research questions with an online multi-level study: how is the online exhibition platform evaluated by its audience? Can regular employment of virtual tours engage new visitors in the long term? Is the representation of a museum, in the form of a virtual twin, an adequate surrogate that creates an immersive visiting experience? © 2021. All Rights Reserved.

Effective i-360 Virtual Museum Tour: Guideline for Elements of Mise-en-Scene from Video Content

The i360 Virtual Museum Tour was developed as a facilitator for Topic 5 Mise-en-Scene and Semiotic Elements in the module DVV3013 Film Studies at the Department of Design and Visual Communication, Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic, Perlis. In terms of location selection, costumes, makeup, lighting, and actor expression, these Mise-en-scene elements include the function of a scene in the film to explain something or give a dramatic effect to the audience. This application displays the Malaysian race through the Iconography element Mise-en-scene of the background, costumes, and props highlighted as part of the Malay sultanate concept before. It was developed using a 360 camera as well as 3D vista software for editing purposes. Exploring this museum involves four main aspects, namely information related to learning at the Kedah State Museum and the Kedah Royal Museum and the quiz elements as an assessment. Design Thinking Process (Empathies, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test) is used as a methodology for design and development process. Thirty-five diploma students (51.4% men, 48.6% of women) responded to the questionnaire. Based on analysis data shown this application is beneficial to know and recognize the elements of Mise-en-Scene the higher-level percentage of 93.0%.

Dimensions of Football Stadium and Museum Tour Experiences: The Case of Europe’s Most Valuable Brands

In the context of football’s globalisation, some of the most important football clubs (FCs) can currently be classified as ‘entertainment multinationals’. Sport hospitality provides opportunities to maximise club stadiums’ use so that they can increase clubs’ annual turnover and function as branding platforms. This study sought to identify the main narratives shared online about—and the dimensions of—visitors’ experiences with top football brands in stadium tours. The data collected for this research comprised 400 text reviews for 10 European FCs’ stadiums (i.e., 4000 reviews) written by visitors in the post-experience phase. Content analysis of these Web reviews was conducted using Leximancer software. The results confirm the existence of 15 themes: fan, tour, stadium, team, museum, room, staff, game, (best) place, ticket, seating, recommend(ation), food, shop and attraction. Most researchers have examined stadium tours from a supply-side perspective. The present study’s aim was, therefore, to contribute to the existing literature by analysing stadium tours’ dimensions from the visitors’ point of view. Stadium tours and museum visits are important sources of revenue that contribute to FCs’ economic sustainability. Offering outstanding customer experiences is thus of utmost importance to maximise club stadiums’ usage and strengthen fans’ engagement.

Compression, Exhilaration, Obliteration, Circulation

Research Article| June 01 2021 Compression, Exhilaration, Obliteration, Circulation: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms and the Subject of Digital Magnitude Tess Takahashi Tess Takahashi Tess Takahashi is a Toronto-based scholar, writer, and programmer focusing on the politics of experimental moving image arts. She is currently working on two books, On Magnitude, which considers art and questions of digital scale, and Impure Film (1968–2008), which connects the fields of documentary and art via medium specificity. She has been a member of the editorial collective for Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media for ten years. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2021) 48 (2): 94–108. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.2.94 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Tess Takahashi; Compression, Exhilaration, Obliteration, Circulation: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms and the Subject of Digital Magnitude. Afterimage 1 June 2021; 48 (2): 94–108. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.2.94 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search “I am swallowed by an unending universe of color-changing lights. Kusama’s work is many things at once: a physical space and an existential question, an expansive universe and a deep abyss, a visual delight and a disarming journey. Faced with these overwhelming notions, I do the logical thing: I take a selfie.”1 Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms (1963–present), featured in a five-city North American museum tour in 2017 and 2018,2 capture the contradictions at the heart of our cultural moment—in particular, the disjunction between our located physical embodiment and our long digital reach. Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms (alternately referred to as Rooms) serve as a symptom of the current state of overwhelm many of us feel that is an intensification of present time detached from seemingly endless tasks and endless choice. In the age of digital networking, digital time tends to be typified as smooth and flat,... You do not currently have access to this content.

VIRTUAL MUSEUM TOUR IN WASAKA BANJARMASIN TO INTRODUCE THE COLLECTION OF LEADERS AND LOCAL HEROES BASED ON MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY IN THE NEW NORMAL ERA

Wasaka Museum is one of the museums in Banjarmasin City. However, the information obtained by visitors at this time is only from short writings near the object of the image, and museum guards cannot accompany visitors to get around. Furthermore, the interest of museum visitors has also decreased due to the unavailability of adequate information, minimal services, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this research is to develop applications using Mobile Augmented Reality Technology as a means of promotion, trying to attract visitors with AR interaction treats, and the form of virtual museum tours. The methodology used is the Agile Development Method with the type of Extreme Programming (XP). Then the A/B Testing Method is used to select the user interface design. Marker-Based Tracking is a method of detecting markers so that 3D objects can appear. The conclusion is that the selected interface design is design B with a percentage of 76.9%, all the features in the application have functioned very well, and the results of the usability evaluation with a percentage of 83.33% have an Excellent predicate which means that they can be recommended for further use at the Wasaka Museum Banjarmasin in the New Normal Era.

Developing operational environments and educational activities for early childhood development students in museums

ABSTRACT National museums in Zimbabwe receive Early Childhood Development students (ECDs), but very little is known about how they find museums educationally worthy. This study examines the suitability of museum environments and educational activities in facilitating the learning of curriculum content among ECDs. This study employed qualitative research and multiple case studies. Interviews, observations, focus group discussions and listening to ECDs conversations were employed as research instruments. The research population included 800 ECDs, 200 ECDs teachers, 31 museum tour guides, 7 curators and 4 museum education officers. The study was undertaken from 2010 to 2019 at five national museums in Zimbabwe. It is revealed that national museums in Zimbabwe have few child-sized facilities, environments and educational programmes for ECDs. Therefore, ECDs face physical, attitudinal and intellectual barriers in accessing museums. It is concluded that national museums in Zimbabwe consider ECDs a postscript hence students and teachers treat museum excursions as leisure outings.

The Need for Educators of Color in K-12 Museum Tours

ABSTRACT School tours are an integral part of museum education programming and often account for a large percent of museum audience attendance. While student demographics have changed over the last century, the demographics of museum educators, particularly those leading K-12 tours has remained predominately White. Though this is common knowledge across the museum field, little research has gone into quantifying these numbers. This article investigates museums as spaces for White people, presents classroom research related to the importance of educators of color, and presents findings from a small-scale study which demonstrate the disparity between tour guide and student demographics.

The impact of modern technology on the activities of museums

The article describes the state of museums in the past, the impact of monotonous activities in the country on the number of visitors, as well as the introduction of new technologies and their impact on museums. The importance of using new technologies in the provision of their services, quickly focused on the modern period of museums that are among the top 10 world-famous museums, is emphasized. Virtual tours in 3D format of several foreign and patronymic museums and exhibitions with the use of modern technologies and augmented virtual reality indicate that the museum's attendance is increasing both online and offline. The situation in our country shows that significant work needs to be done to increase the number of visitors to museums, including the use of new technologies, good advertising, various promotions. This idea can be confirmed by the results of a survey on the use of augmented reality and virtual reality technologies in the museum in our country. The desire of a total of 179 participants to visit the museum confirms the need to develop this area. In the near future, people's visits to museums may change, their situation shows that the industry needs to be developed in the future, there is a great opportunity to deliver art to people previously unavailable, people who do not have the opportunity to travel and visit famous museums have online access to the world's best collections. Strict restrictions due to the pandemic have increased people's interest in listening to virtual tours of museums, which, among other things, is due to the fact that the museums themselves are beginning to quickly direct visitors to online tours.

THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM SPACE AS A PLATFORM FOR STUDENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS

The article presents the results of theoretical justification and practical verification of modern possibilities of using the pictorial method (museum tours) in teaching the subject “The History of Economics and Economic Thought”. The article justifies the evolution of views on the range of sources on historical processes. A modern understanding of “a pictorial turn” in historical research was presented. The virtual museum as an informational resource, multimedia phenomenon, cost-effective model of museum space was considered. The educational experience of the EU countries in using modern methods of working with museum expositions to form economic thinking was studied. The need to turn the traditional paradigm of the museum as a center for preserving historical values into the educational interaction between the tourist student and the objects of the museum’s collection was proved. The article describes the content of the two-stage pedagogical experiment (between 2014 and 2018). The first stage explores the possibility of using educational museum tours and historically significant territories of cities as a method of studying the history of regional economics in the context of seminars. The author’s pedagogical product, that is regional thematic tours on the history of economics, was presented. The second stage develops and verifies the methodology of using online resources of Ukrainian museums (virtual tours, virtual exhibits) to organize the independent work of students in the context of this subject. The thematic catalog of online resources of Ukrainian museums for conducting research activities within this subject was created. The article presents research activities with the exposition of the virtual museum in the framework of the independent work of students. Based on the results obtained from the survey of students from higher education institutions of Ukoоpspilka, it is proved that working in the virtual museum space implies innovative, multidisciplinary, competence-oriented research activities, as well as an effective form of organizing independent work of students.

Actualization of cultural heritage by museum means for the visitors with hearing impairment

The subject of this research is the actualization of cultural heritage by museum means. The object of this research is the adaptation of persons with hearing impairment, namely the experience of Russian museums. Museum plays a significant role in the processes of sociocultural adaptation, self-identification and social inclusion of the people with disabilities, possessing a unique set of criteria, ability to accumulate and transmit cultural potential. The active participation of museums in solution of sociocultural problems in many ways determines the vector of further development of museology, implementing modern cultural practices. The authors believe that working with the hearing-impaired visitors requires reconsideration of the traditional ways of presenting museum information and development of the new forms of interpretation of exhibition material. The conclusion is made that museum personnel should orient towards the individual peculiarities of each visitor, taking into account their capabilities in selecting the channel of museum communication, forms, methods and approaches. Museum personnel should plan their work jointly with the pedagogues, rehabilitation specialists, social workers, psychologists, and persons with disabilities directly. Each museum should be provided with the necessary conditions for working with children of each disability category. Namely this underlied the development of the concept of museum tour “We Can Hear You Through The Eyes” on the premises of Kuzbass State Museum of Local Lore.

Multi-objective Route Planning of Museum Guide based on an Improved NSGA-II Algorithm

Museums have become a hot spot of tourism. However, the uneven distribution of passenger flow makes it difficult for tourists to find out the shortest and most comfortable tour route. The multi-objective route planning strategy is proposed for the design of museum tour route. This paper presents an improved version of the NSGA-II algorithm, named adaptive 2-opt_integerated non-dominated sorting genetic (AONSGA) algorithm. Based on NSGA-II algorithm, the adaptive probability and 2-opt local search strategy is introduced. Then the computation results on benchmark multi-objective problems show that the AONSGA algorithm has better convergence and diversity performance than the NSGA-II. Whereafter, taking the Palace Museum as an example, a map is established and AONSGA is applied to carry out multi-objective guide route planning. Finally, according to different requirements of tourists, three kinds of specific schemes of the guide route in the Palace Museum are recommended.

Arts-Based Interventions for Dementia Care: East Meets West Symposium

This East Meets West symposium presents evidence of arts-based interventions in dementia care in different societal settings, focusing on the U.S.A. and China, where live about one-third of the world’s total estimated 49 million dementia population. The first study from Kansas in the U.S. outlined the varieties of arts being applied in dementia care and recommended dementia care, inter-professional teams, to involve those professionals in arts and humanities. The second paper, based upon secondary national representative data, examined the association with arts-related hobbies and cognition status among Chinese older adults. The authors called for more research to shed light on the underlying mechanisms between arts and cognition. The third paper discussed two arts-based clinical trials on persons with dementia (PWD) at different stages living in Hong Kong. It found that dancing body movement therapy improved behavioral and emotional outcomes among those at the mild dementia stage. In contrast, music and movement worked better for those at the moderate dementia stage. The fourth study reviewed the effectiveness of body movement therapies for PWD, using an example of the Wheelchair-bound Senior Elastic Band for older adults with disability and dementia. The last study examined the effectiveness of a program that used museum tours to empower, educate, and inspire PWD. One discussant will share lessons learned across studies, and the other discussant from AARP Global Council on Brain Health will speak to the effects of music relating to the AARP 2020 consensus report on music and the brain health.

Perspectives on Virtual Museum Tours

As a number of world museums have closed their doors for the public due to pandemic of the new Corona virus, curators are thinking of alternative ways of audience outreach: 3D virtual galleries are increasingly created, video guided tours shared, digitized collections put online. The new circumstances unquestionably bring potentials for growth, but carry numer­ous risks and inconsideration, as well. Many theoreticians argue that the cri­sis of this scale will undoubtedly fasten the digital transformation in muse­um and arts sector and consequently, in a much more wide sense influence the identity rethinking. However, the research of audience interest to virtual museum tours show there was a peak of just 3 days visiting these, massively followed by a fast decrease even the social isolation was globally still present and museum buildings still locked. Turning back to the genesis of the virtual museums, in the following paper, we will question why there is no interest to virtual museum content. Do tours answer the needs of the contemporary digital-born audience? Do these represent just a copy of settings from phys­ical galleries or use potentials and logic of the new spaces? Will museums finally transform and enter into so many times nowadays mentioned digital shift answering the need of the new, transmedia perception of audience?

Learning via Virtual and Real Museums

The aim of study is to compare the contributions of virtual and real museum tours in terms of perceived presence and knowledge retention. The sample of study which was 28 third graders enrolled in a public primary school in an informal instructional process. There were two groups (virtual group and real group); one visited virtual museum (n=14), and the other (n=14) visited real one. Semi-structured interview form and student drawings were used to discuss students' evaluations about two environments. The results suggested that students who have attended virtual museum tour remember much more about the events and objects than students who have visited real museum tour. Students who attended virtual museum tours had perceived presence mostly as much as and in some cases, more than the real group students. Implementations for designing virtual and real museums for feeling more presence and contributing to knowledge retention are also included.

The versatility of augmented reality for the enhancement of cultural heritage.

All Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality or straight-up video games can now be found in growing numbers within spaces dedicated to culture and the arts. The choice of such tools is trans-forming the traditional museum tour into a multifaceted and interactive experience to the point, in some cases, of flirting with entertainment. From our experience, the role of augmented reality hasn’t been to substitute itself to the « real » tour. On the contrary, AR invites the user to immerse themselves in an animated personal experience enriched with supplementary information. Elaborated with goals and features different from those of virtual reality, AR aims at strengthening direct contact with works of art as much as possible, inciting an active « live » use and a presence “on-site” more than “on-line”. The diversity of three logistical contexts in which we have worked — a large-scale monument, a historical palace and its heterogenous art collection, and finally an archeological complex encompassing a traditional museum and the remains of a Roman amphitheatre — has brought us to reflect upon the functional aspects that come to determine a personalized digital product, as tailored as possible to specific needs. Each of the three apps has permitted a deepening of each of their features in order to meet specific goals targeted by various museum institutions. In this paper we describe these features in more specific terms.

Evaluating User Experience of a Multimedia Storyteller Panorama Tour: The Story of the Markham Car Collection

A storyteller panorama tour, The Story of the Markam Car Collection, was developed as an example for museums and cultural institutions concerning the use of panoramas combined with multimedia to tell stories of specific large objects (antique cars). It was designed for multiple platforms to involve and engage audiences via large curved screens while allowing for access via portable devices. Understanding users’ requirements is essential when designing and developing virtual museum tours. Measuring digital productions’ usability is an ongoing challenge that affects the improvement of user experience and the actual output. A variety of techniques and approaches are available to test digital productions’ usability and the related user experience. It is possible to measure and evaluate the production’s usefulness, including users’ engagement and understanding. However, the best method for assessing museum-related digital productions varies depending on aims, capacity, audience, and local context. In this paper, we demonstrate the strategy we employed to evaluate the particular storyteller panorama tour’s usability, user experience, engagement, and resulting audience understanding. The results of the evaluations showed that storyteller panorama tours could be an effective, attractive, and engaging storyteller method for cultural institutions. However, the findings also indicated that the users’ age, gender, and computer-related experience influence the use and enjoyment levels. We share our experiences and offer an example of how to evaluate a storyteller panorama tour. We believe that the presented evaluation strategy would be applicable to other museum-related projects, as well.