In Through the Out Door: Creating the Right Way for a Museum Entry Experience
In Through the Out Door: Creating the Right Way for a Museum Entry Experience
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2010
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Meyer, Jenny Katherine Ann
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This is a case study of the entryway at the BADM, and my journey of creating a functional public entryway. Refining this topic involved much thought and study. I first was going to write about museum entryways in inherited buildings - that is, buildings that were never intended to function as public museums and their design challenges. The more I talked with museum professionals about that idea, the more they encouraged me to expand the topic to incorporate all museums, because even museums that were built to function as such still have challenging entrances. Then the topic evolved to evaluating two other museums in the San Francisco Bay Area with the same evaluation and planning process that I helped to create at The Bay Area Discovery Museum. However, before I could import BADM's process to other institutions, it made more sense to finish the evaluation process by completing a summative evaluation. This thesis is a culmination of almost a year's worth of work exploring how to create an efficient and experiential entryway, based on my studies tracking these issues with museum professionals at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. The thesis highlights those experiences, starting with the methodology which uses a evaluating and planning process.