GENDER AND ART MUSEUM VISITORSHIP: EXAMINING AN UNDERSTUDIED COMPONENT OF VISITOR STUDIES
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Authors
Richie, Nathan N. Richie
Issue Date
2001
Type
Capstone
Language
en
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Abstract
Visitor studies is a widely accepted practice in the museum field. Researchers compile and analyze data to determine who visit museums and why, and what visitors learn and seek from their experiences. Visitor studies researchers routinely look at variables such as age, education attainment, and race or ethnicity in answering these questions. Although data on gender is routinely and quite easily collected, visitor studies professionals have paid scant attention to the significance gender plays on an individual's preferences for museums. The purpose of this study is to call attention to visitor studies researchers, museum educators and exhibit developers the fact gender has been understudied. I will also point up some of the ways that gender may be a significant variable in art museum visitation. For the purposes of this project, I have focused on how being male influences one's perceptions of art museums.