Indiana State Museum Report

Local Study

In order to gather the best information about Indiana State Museum events relating to visitor experience and public engagement, our team created a survey on SurveyMonkey. We designed a 10-question survey aimed at: a) finding the barriers/issues that are keeping people from registering for museum events in advance, b) finding potential methods and strategies for increasing event pre-registration. The survey questions were set up in multiple-choice format. In order to disseminate our survey, we distributed the survey through the ISM email list and surveyed people in-person at the Indiana State Museum. We received a total of 57 responses. The majority of people surveyed were museum patrons, as we surveyed people attending ISM events and people on the ISM email list.

 

Each question included in the survey was chosen either to fill holes in the internet research or to test a hypothesis derived from the research. The results gathered from this survey proved indispensable for providing useful recommendations for the Indiana State Museum.