I can chime in on both sides of this question. I worked for a museum that used stickers and felt it was a bit of a disaster. If the sticker stayed on for the entire visit and did not fall off to adhere to our wooden floors, the visitor usually stuck the sticker to our outside walls, our windows, lamp posts, signs, you name it. We scrapped more of those silly stickers off our building!
My current museum uses the colored wristbands, a different color each day. School groups receive a different color for their visit. This makes a visual check easy and you can see whether the person is with a school group or a paid guest. The only down side is the tabs that you pull off to apply the band. Guests seem to drop those on the floor, I think I pick up about 100 tabs a day while walking through the building.
My vote would lean towards wristbands. As you are part of Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown, I do not think you want adhesive stickers on buildings, walls, floors, etc.
Good luck.
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Linda Nelson
Registrar
Maryland Science Center
Baltimore MD
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-02-2015 10:32 AM
From: Kolby Keller
Subject: Admission Stickers
The museum I work for is currently looking to at the possibility of changing our admission ticket proof from a site map and receipt, to stickers. We have two different museums, in two different towns. We would use two different shapes to indicate the different locations. We were also thinking about having a different color for every day. These would help staff to identify who has purchased a ticket for that day and that site.
I am curious to know how the admission stickers are working for other museums. We see a lot of traffic in our lobbies, and stickers would hopefully cut down the number of people who wonder on to site without paying admission. I would like to know since implementing stickers, if anyone has seen an increase in their revenue. Has it been an easy transition? Is it making it easier to determine who has come on to the site without paying? Please mention any problems your museum has encountered during the transition. Any information would be helpful in determining if this is a change we should consider.
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Kolby Keller
Jamestown Settlement
Williamsburg VA
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