Knowing our Visitors: a Studies on Publics and Museums. Volume III. Referents and Application Experiences from the Field Book Review

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Abstract

This book is the third volume in the Estudios sobre Públicos y Museos (Studies in Visitors and Museums) series, coordinated by Leticia Pérez Castellanos, academic of the Postgraduate program in Museology at the Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENCRyM-INAH). This is an important contribution towards the existing body of work that demonstrates the significance and usefulness of visitor studies. This
work, in addition to providing a variety of case studies from museum institutions that have, for varying reasons, taken on the task of analyzing their audiences, focuses on key debates, dilemmas, and practices that characterize this type of research today.

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Author Biography

Gustavo Corral Guillé, Independent researcher

Gustavo Corral is Master in Computer Science by the Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, Mexico) and Doctor in History of Science by the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain). His lines of research focus on the history of science museums, especially on the transition from a “collection-based” model to an “interactive “ one, and how that relationship affects the popularization of science, as well as the complex relationship between science and the public within museums. The last four years he has worked on collaborative and intercultural projects to learn
about different inductive and participatory methodologies that reflect the diversity of the particular knowledge and experiences of all those involved in an investigation.

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2020-12-17

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Corral Guillé, G. (2020). Knowing our Visitors: a Studies on Publics and Museums. Volume III. Referents and Application Experiences from the Field Book Review. Intervención, 2(22), 296–313. https://doi.org/10.30763/Intervencion.239.v2n22.18.2020

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Vol. 2 No. 22 (2020): july_december

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Book Review

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