英文摘要 |
Adults constitute the majority of museum visitors both locally and abroad and exhibitions are visitors' main conduit for learning. This makes the evaluation of exhibitions and provision of recommendations and improvement measures a vitally important subject for museum staff. Presently, the focus of domestic and international research is on the conversations of family groups in science museums. However, study of adult visitor conversations for arts and cultural museums also comprises significant research value. This study is designed to explore conversation categories and their distribution for adult visitors at the Jade Exhibition in the National Palace Museum. The results of this assessment are used to provide recommendations and strategies for improving adult visitor conversations. The permanent Jade Exhibition at the National Palace Museum is the site for this study. A purposive sampling method is used with adult visitors whom frequently visit art and cultural museums being the object of study. A total of 20 adult visitors, divided into 10 teams with 2 visitors in each group, participated in this study. This investigation applies quantitative content analysis to analyze conversations of visitors. Results of this study presented that perceptual talk is the type of conversation adult visitors engage in the most with responses on quotation, complex concept, and knowledge-connection clearly influenced by the interviewee's personal background in the arts and cultural studies. Finally, suggestions on improvements for the exhibition are also presented. |