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24th Annual Conference - Chicago, IL July 24-27, 2011
VSA is delighted to announce that our 2011 Conference will be held in Chicago, IL. Even better, we'll be meeting in conjunction with the Association of Midwest Museums. VSA delegates will have the option to attend all AMM sessions, and vice-versa. Save the date on your calendar: July 24-27, 2011 at the historic Palmer House Hotel in the heart of the Loop.
23rd Annual Conference Wrapup
Building Shared Agendas:
Conversations on the Public Value of Visitor Studies
July 29-31, 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona
Identifying and measuring the value of museums for their publics has become one of the most critical issues facing the visitor studies field. What is the essential role that visitor studies can play in achieving a museum’s mission? How do visitor studies make a difference in the ways museums operate? What is the value of visitor studies across museum departments and management?
At the 23rd Annual VSA Conference, our conversation built on and extend the theme of public value from the 2009 Conference.
We begin the process of crafting shared research and evaluation agendas about what we know and still need to know in the field. Discussants lead conversations within and across panels, highlighing key themes. At larger town hall sessions during the conference, attendees and discussants come together for conversation on broad issues that emerged from individual sessions.
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