Studying Visitors

A Companion to Museum Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 362-376

  Hooper Greenhill, Eilean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exhibitions; Museums; Observational studies; Professional practices; Visitor studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890974730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996836.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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