The Parental Role in Children’s Museums: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Behaviors

Museum AudiencesExperience Design
Written By Multiple Authors

By: Stephanie Downey, Amanda Krantz, and Emily Skidmore

This article presents the results of audience research at a children’s museum in Philadelphia. The research focuses on understanding the parental role in a children’s museum experience. In particular, it identifies and explains three barriers to full parental participation. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Museums & Social Issues on 18th July 2013.

Multiple Authors
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