Creating a New History Museum: Mapping Visitors’ Expectations and Needs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F25%3A10499439" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/25:10499439 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=flq7O0~hkD" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=flq7O0~hkD</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/MuB2025-1-4" target="_blank" >10.5817/MuB2025-1-4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Creating a New History Museum: Mapping Visitors’ Expectations and Needs
Original language description
The aim of this study was to describe how a new exhibition about modern history was created and which new approaches were used: such as interdisciplinary teams, mapping visitors' expectations or using research for better exhibition planning. The new exhibition is a pivotal part of the Memory of Nations Institute (MNI) founded by Post Bellum, a non-profit organization with a 20-year-plus history of recording witnesses' memories of historical events from throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. During the design process we applied a visitor-centered approach: we asked visitors what their expectations about this kind of project were and which cultural habits they brought to museums from their previous visits. These research questions were answered via a quantitative survey completed by 808 respondents. We recorded visitors' overall needs which showed that they spent approximately 1-2 hours in museums visited; they came with another person; with increasing age, their willingness to interact with exhibitions decreased; and we discovered preferences regarding particular historic topics. In order to obtain more detailed data we later conducted 26 semi-structured interviews with respondents who originally come from different countries but currently live in the Czech Republic (16). We did similar interviews with Czech respondents (10). This research provided useful information about visitors' general habits in the Czech Republic. Thus, these particular findings can be generalized for broader application.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/TL03000123" target="_blank" >TL03000123: Memory of Nation Exposition Education Tools for the 21st Century</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Museologica Brunensia
ISSN
1805-4722
e-ISSN
2464-5362
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
38-54
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105012239635