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Next-Gen Donors Focused on Values, Impact, Hands-On Engagement, Report Finds. The rush to the box office. Exhibitions Museums Attendance USA Museums are feeding an addiction for shows that put works of art at risk and allow visitors no time to reflect By Blake Gopnik.

The rush to the box office

Attendance, Issue 245, April 2013Published online: 28 March 2013 Crowd control outside New York’s Museum of Modern Art In Tokyo, 758,266 people rush to see the treasures of Holland’s Mauritshuis museum; in New York, 605,586 people view the photos of Cindy Sherman, by Cindy Sherman; 487,716 Parisians consider the American genius of Edward Hopper—these are just a few of the staggering attendance figures for recent exhibitions. Unless we’re seeing symptoms of florid illness. Almost a quarter of a century ago, Francis Haskell, the late and very great historian of taste, warned in a famous essay that exhibitions “are now replacing museums as the principal vehicles for the transmission of visual culture”, and went on to launch a jeremiad against the change.

Submit a comment All comments are moderated. Email* Name* City* Cultural Conversation by Judith H. Dobrzynski. Selling memories: museum education and consumerism. Hello there!

Selling memories: museum education and consumerism

If you enjoy the content on Sci-Ed, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. Update: Thank you all for sharing your museum experiences via comments and tweeter! Reader Brian Gratwicke shared another clever ad campaign (this time from Vancouver’s Aquarium) “If frogs go extinct, you’ll notice“. Readers: please continue to submit your museum experiences (good OR bad) via comments or twitter! A whale’s heart goes for a ride. A few months ago, the science blogosphere was ablaze with an ad campaign from the a science museum in Vancouver.

As we mentioned in earlier blog posts, many adults visit museums after they are persuaded by their children. This ad counts on the voluntary participation of Vancouver seagulls. When is it honorable to use advertising as subterfuge for the cause of science and education? Besides trying to attract donors and sponsors, museums also try to raise funds by selling tickets. Quirky way to put sauroposeidon into scale. Museums Mull Public Use of Online Art Images. Museum Audience Insight: Free Admission Days and Daily Deals. Free days.

Museum Audience Insight: Free Admission Days and Daily Deals

Daily deals. Who can resist? They take away or reduce at least one barrier to visiting museums and (we hope) broaden and diversify our audiences. But are they ultimately beneficial to museums? The thing is . . . we don’t know. Free Days Nearly a fifth of responding museums reported that they never charge admission fees, while another fifth had occasional, sponsored free days. First, free days do appear to be a draw for audiences that would not otherwise visit. But those free days can be too popular, as another respondent said, “We have been reaching capacity during free hours this year, which is new for us. Additionally, it was noted that too many free days can be problematic as well, as it can depress regular paid attendance or it can reduce the incentive to visit, even on free days (that is, if you have a free day every week, there is no sense of urgency to visit, so potential visitors keep putting it off). Daily Deals What do you think?

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