EmilyW.R10

The first thing Carliner mentions in his blog is the extensive study that Falk and Dierking conducted. There were no other mentions of this study or any information to back it up in the rest of the blog. He talked about his own experience and his partners but I don't know if this was a sufficient argument to back up the study that he mentions. There are many other factors of why people go to museums than just personal interest. I do agree that personal interest is probably the main reason. However, in his analysis he should have given more examples to back it up.

Some other reasons to visit museums are perhaps you were scheduled to go there for a class, you didn't have enough money to go to a concert one weekend so you decided to go to a museum, you were visiting a foreign country and perhaps your tour guide took you there, you wanted to steal a painting or artifact from the museum. These are just a few other reason's that one might visit a museum.

I do think it is accurate to say that everyone comes out of a museum with different information. Just like everyone comes out of a movie with a slightly different experience or sees different shapes in the clouds. Every person is different, therefore they experience things differently. The point of a museum is not so that every person that walks in sees the same thing and experiences the same thing but that they experience. Experience is the point of a museum otherwise they would not bother. It is to go somewhere to see something and acquire information about it. Everyone gets different information out and that is an obvious phenomenon. A ten year old is going to get something much different out of a museum of anthropology than an anthropology professor.