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Interview at Community Centre after Visit - 1/12/09
This self-report suggests that the organiser of this outreach visit is right to keep the time
visiting the gallery to a relatively short timeframe.
Figure 12: Mothers stop in gallery to view paintings (24.11.09)
To be sure, it is clear that the gallery visit served to provide the mothers with some
exposure to the museum’s collection within a manageable framework and time period. In
addition to looking around on the way into the gallery, the mothers and their children lingered
on the way out (after the storytelling was complete), pausing several times to view paintings
or artefacts on route back to the downstairs studio room. One such example of mothers
pausing in front of a painting can be seen in the image above (Figure 12).
One participant- who was visiting a museum for the first time ever- discussed her
response to the gallery ‘walking round’ aspect of the visit in a follow-up interview one week
later.
Interviewer So what did you think overall?
Carrie Yes, I really enjoyed it. I would’ve actually liked to have
walked round a bit more because [my daughter] was fascinated
with it all. So it would’ve been nice if we could’ve walked