Helping museums and cultural organizations create transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
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Publications

 

Selected publications

In order to share what we learn with the wider professional field of museums and other free-choice learning organizations, Audience Focus encourages its partners to join them in co-authoring articles about our projects.  A few featured publications are listed below.


 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

List of recent publications

  • Forbes, J., Adams, M, with Ancelet, J. (2022) Family Spaces in Art Museums: Creating Curiosity, Wonder, and Play. Rowman & Littlefield.

  • Luke, J. & Ancelet, J. (2014) The Role of Evaluation in Reimagining the Art Museum. Journal of Museum Education

  • Helal, D., Ancelet, J., & Maxon, H. (2013) Lessons Learned: Evaluating the Whitney’s Multimedia Guide. Selected Papers from Museums & the Web North America https://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/lessons-learned-evaluating-the-whitneys-multimedia-guide/

  • Adams, M. (2012) Museum Evaluation: Where Have We Been? What Has Changed? and Where Do We Need to Go Next? Journal of Museum Education

  • Family Learning in Interactive Art Galleries, IMLS-funded research collaborative with Audience Focus, Institute for Learning Innovation, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the High Museum of Art, & the Speed Art Museum, 2011, www.familiesinartmuseums.org

  • Ancelet, J., Butler, S., & Ong, A. (2011) Exhibit Review: Object Stories. Museums and Social Issues

  • Koke, J. & Adams, M., eds. (Fall 2008) Institution Wide Interpretive Planning. Journal of Museum Education

  • Luke, J.J., & Adams, M. (2008). What Research Says about Learning in Art Museums. In P. Villeneuve (Ed.), From periphery to center: Art museum education in the 21st century. Reston, VA: National Association of Art Education

  • Stein, J., Adams, M., & Luke, J. (2007). Thinking Evaluatively: A Practical Guide to Integrating the Visitor Voice. Nashville, TN: Association for American and State Local History

  • Kisiel, J. & Ancelet, J. (2006) Uncovering Visitors Conceptions of Fossils and the Fossil Record. Visitor Studies