Evaluating Accessibility in Museums - A Practical Guide

This book bridges accessibility and evaluation through case studies of museums that highlight the role of evaluation in accessibility work.

About the author

Laureen Trainer is Principal of Trainer Evaluation in Denver, CO. She is editor of the blog for the Committee an Audience Research and Evaluation, a Professional Network of the American Alliance of Museums. She has published 19 blogs to date, starting in 2020, and has worked with over a dozen authors. She co-edited a volume of the Journal of Museum Education, Empowering Museum Educators to Evaluate (Volume 40). She has also been a JME peer reviewer for over a decade. She has been involved in the museum world since 1997, first as a museum educator, and starting in 2010, as a museum evaluator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. In 2013, seeing the need for evaluation in small to mid-size cultural institutions, she became an independent, external evaluator.

Summary

This book bridges accessibility and evaluation through case studies of museums that highlight the role of evaluation in accessibility work.

Product details

• Authors: Laureen Trainer
• Assisted by: Laureen Trainer (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2024
• EAN: 9781538186305
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-8630-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, ART / Museum Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Management & management techniques, Management and management techniques, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Social discrimination and social justice