New Night Kitchen paper

• By Jenny Parker
• February 4, 2008

We just completed our paper for the 2008 Museums and the Web conference: The Art of Storytelling: Enriching Art Museum Exhibits and Education Through Visitor Narratives (PDF). It has lots of great details about visitor-contributed programs and their impact on the museum experience. Here’s an excerpt:

Over a year has passed since the completion of the Art of Storytelling project, in which visitors to the Delaware Art Museum crafted original stories inspired by objects in the museum. Since then, much debate has occurred regarding the value of such visitor-contributed content projects. Do visitors see the museum’s carefully-crafted, expert panoply of voices as one to which their own voice would be a vital, meaningful addition? More over, do visitors foster an interest in making those contributions? Our experience suggests “Yes” and “yes”, though not without a few important qualifications….

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