Two teams of curators wanted to make their upcoming gallery reinstallations compelling and resonant for visitors. The museum’s interpretation and audience research staff asked Slover Linett to work with both curatorial teams over several years, to bring visitors’ and... Read more
Slover Linett has done considerable research on classical music audiences and innovations over the years. But other kinds of music are also vital, evolving art-forms, with their own communities of creators and consumers. So we’ve been delighted to partner with Folk... Read more
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We are honored and excited to play a small role in a big idea emanating from Santa Cruz, California. OF/BY/FOR ALL is a new, international change network created by museum and community leader and author Nina Simon to help civic, cultural, and community organizations... Read more
In 2019, we’ve been working again with Ballet Austin and the Goodman Theatre on related research questions: How do audiences decide to take the leap of attending dance or theater performances that they don’t know much about? Both organizations are grantees of the... Read more
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Hear, hear! We couldn't agree more with @eabolander and the team at @ClevelandArt about the importance of "audience-centered" front-end research.
"While I have a fondness for visitor research at any stage, there is a special place in my heart for front-end research."
@EABolander—of @ClevelandArt—explains how visitor studies can guide an initial idea toward something that is truly audience-centered.
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We're thrilled to share the executive summary of the inaugural stakeholder research conducted with our friends at @folkalliance. The report is available below:
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"A huge sample size doesn’t mean much if that sample isn’t really representative — and you’ll never know that from the margin of error."
@PLinett discusses polling methods in our latest post:
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Stop worrying about “margin of error” – Worry about response rate | Slover Linett
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The public will come in and they will not only be able to see the cultures of the ancient world, but also see how they fit into it. - Julian Siggers, @pennmuseum Congratulations! @SloverLinett #nametesting
Penn Museum’s transformation revealed | Penn Today
The main level reopens after a historic renovation featuring the relocated sphinx and completely reimagined Africa and Mexico/Central America gallerie...
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"Anonymous staff surveys can help deepen your understanding of professional satisfaction, culture, & organizational values & the progress you’re making, or need to be making, in certain areas."
@jenbenoitbryan offers 7 tips for developing staff #surveys:
Seven Tips for Developing a Staff Survey | Slover Linett
At Slover Linett, we focus most of our (formidable!) research chops on helping organizations connect more deeply with their audiences and communities....
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@artlust @SloverLinett @AnandWrites Great points. It's striking when the challenges of the field - how museums are perceived or what they stand for - are so baked into the language like this, in that they become a metaphor for fixed states (or arbiters of "truth," as you say)
While not the author's point here, it's telling that the metaphor he uses about putting things "in the museum" in the last sentence is a stand in for basically committing it to a static, historical, dead space @SloverLinett
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