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Placing Visitors at the Heart of
our New Museum for WA
Donna Comtesse
Senior Project Officer – Audience Advocate
donna.comtesse@museum.wa.gov.au
THEMATIC CROSS THREADS
ORIGINS
LIFE
CHANGES
VOICES
CONNECTIONS
BEING
WESTERN
AUSTRALIAN
DISCOVERING
WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
EXPLORING
THE WORLD
REVEALING
THE MUSEUM
ABORIGINAL
PERSPECTIVES
INDIAN OCEAN
PERSPECTIVES
CONTINUOUS
CULTURES
INNOVATION
AND
CREATIVITY
WHAT DOES PEOPLE FIRST
MEAN?
Our New Museum is a museum by, for and with
the people of WA.
It is their Museum, about their place, their
stories and so they must, and they are, helping
to shape it.
HOW?
Audience Research
Community Panels
Aboriginal Advisory Committee
Aboriginal Liaison Officers
Content and Public Engagement
Aim: to find out audiences attitudes towards,
perceptions and knowledge of the Indian Ocean
world and Western Australia’s position within it.
WHY A FRONT END
EVALUATION?
Provide insights into
visitor’s needs and
understandings
Share ways of thinking
with the visitor
Looking for patterns
Best ways to
communicate
HANDS UP!
a) 16 b) 7 c) 4 d) 2
On average how many Indian Ocean countries do
you think our participants listed?
THANKS!
QUESTIONS?Image Credits
All images are © Western Australian Museum
Except for:
Slide 4-7: © WA Museum, image courtesy Multiplex, HASSELL + OMA
Slide 15: © David Steele / Alamy Stock Photo
Slide 16: © Russell Ord Photography
Slide 20: © World History Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
Slide 21: © James Fisher, Tourism Australia
Slide 22: © robertharding / Alamy Stock Photo
Slide 24: © Extreme Sports Photo / Alamy Stock Photo
Slide 26: © Pieter.G.Balk
Slide 28: © StockImagesWA.com.au