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Sara Petitt EdD
Prof. Sara Petitt
Fashion Institute of Technology - State University of New York
New York NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-06-2018 10:36 AM
From: Kyrie Kellett
Subject: Session on interpretive/visitor experience planning at ASTC
Hi all,
I would love to propose an ASTC conference session about the value of interpretive and visitor experience planning for science centers. Lots of parks, botanic gardens, and other types of museums use interpretive/visitor experience plans, but I haven't heard of as many science centers do it. If you are an interpretive planner or are an ASTC member/science center/natural history museum that has created an interpretive/visitor experience plan, want to join me?
I personally worked at a science center as an exhibit/program developer and federal grant writer for a long time and saw the need for this type of planning. In fact, I saw so much value in it that I decided to become a Certified Interpretive Planner through the National Association for Interpretation (NAI). At my institution, we used a processes similar to interpretive planning to develop individual exhibitions, but did not have any institutional or hall level plans to inform the overarching experience and interpretive goals of the museum. From the folks that I've talked to in the science center world, this is a common experience. So, I'd love to find more people who have used interpretive or visitor experience planning processes to inform their whole institution, topic area, or new/redeveloped section of the museum in a science center context.
Thank you,
Kyrie
Kyrie Kellett, MA CIP
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