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This chapter presents findings from a research project between the University of Melbourne and Museums Victoria, Australia to evaluate visitor responses to the WWI: Love and Sorrow exhibition at Melbourne Museum. After their own extensive internal evaluation of the visitor experience, staff at Melbourne Museum expressed interest in our drawing methodology. The study was an opportunity to extend the methods used at the Museo Laboratorio della Mente (Chapter 3) to include a walking interview through the exhibition space. In concluding, Boyd and Hughes consider what this addition to the protocol provided as well as the value of their method beyond that normally afforded by in-house evaluation.
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The authors acknowledge their anonymous participants and collaborators Deborah Tout-Smith (Museums Victoria), Elizabeth Straughan (University of Melbourne), Sarah Bennett (Kingston University), and Meighen Katz (University of Melbourne). Thanks also to our expert advisors: Carolyn Meehan (Museums Victoria), Andrea Witcomb (Deakin University), Linda Sproul (Museums Victoria), and Thomas Bristow (Durham University).
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Boyd, C.P., Hughes, R. (2020). WWI: Love and Sorrow Exhibition. In: Emotion and the Contemporary Museum. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8883-5_4
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