Overcoming barriers to visiting: Raising awareness of, and providing orientation and navigation to, a museum and its collections through new technologies

Museum Management and Curatorship

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 283-295

  Davies, Roderick ^a  

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EID: 10644271955     PISSN: 09647775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09647770100501903     Document Type: Note

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