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Visitor experience

This section lists information on how to increase audiences, cultural merchandising and tips on technology free interactives. You might also look in Education, and in Research for reports into the NSW museum and gallery sector.

Cultural Merchandising

This is a presentation from the Regional & Public Galleries Conference 2014. Stephen Quin will outline the keys to success in cultural merchandising.

Technology free interactives

Easy ways to make your museum more interactive.

Museum fatigue

Museum Hack discusses museum-friendly spaces from a 1916 paper.

Attract new museum audiences

Drawn from the workshop titled Community, Collaboration, Change presented by Rebecca Jones as part of the 2015 Standards Program.

How to Conduct Audience Research

Audience research is about finding out who your existing visitors and program participants are and why they come. This guide explains the steps of planning, designing, testing, collecting, reflecting and acting.

How to Develop a Public Program

Public programs are a core way that galleries and museums engage with audiences and attract new visitors. This guide covers all aspects of designing public programs that are meaningful cultural experiences.

Open Up: museums for everyone

A practical guide to support museums to increase the diversity of their visitors.

Museums & Galleries of NSW is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.

Museums & Galleries of NSW acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation and all the other Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work. We pay respect to them as First Nations people with a continuing connection to land, place, waters and community.

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