The self-service venue: Five opportunities for cultural venues
Findings following research by Indigo into audience attitudes towards the use of self-service technology in cultural venues. Sponsored by Point One.
Resources tagged with venue
Out and about with Lewis Roden: signage
Lewis Roden, the Arts Marketing Association‘s (AMA) Member Community Manager, set himself the task of seeing 100 live shows in a year. In the second of a series following his progress, Lewis gives us his observations on what makes signage successful.
Descriptive directions and information for blind or partially sighted visitors to arts venues
While many people will visit an arts venue with a friend or family, it is important to give people access to the information they need so that they can travel to and navigate around the venue independently. This guide by audio-description specialists VocalEyes outlines the key steps to create effective descriptive directions.
Webinar: How to keep your audience engaged, entertained and inspired in the age of Coronavirus
One of a series of webinars by Cuseum in response to the changing landscape caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. Here join Cuseum’s Brendan Ciecko and guests as they explore steps cultural organisations can take to engage their audiences digitally and continue their important work as trusted community resources during this public health and economic crisis, even when … Read more
CircuitWest: The Search for Audiences Handbook
The Search for Audiences handbook is a tool for helping presenters (venues) build audiences. It details the research techniques CircuitWest and its participating members used for 12 Western Australian presenters in its projects involving focus groups (qualitative) and, in some cases, surveys (quantitative). It provides an overview of the main factors that influenced audience behaviour across the studies, as well as details the research questions … Read more
Following Fundraising Fellows: How to succeed as a fundraising team of one
Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy Fellow Tom Shallaker tells us what it’s like to be a fundraising team of one and how he helped inspire an organisation-wide culture of fundraising.
Following Fundraising Fellows: Pictures, people, place and priorities
Each year the Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy (AF&P) Fundraising Fellowship programme brings together our cohort of fellows for face-to-face training, to explore key issues in the sector and share learning. Here, 2019 Fellow Lynda Jackson, Museum Manager at the Judges Lodgings in Lancaster, shares her thoughts from the residential in Newcastle Gateshead
Choosing the right Ticketing/CRM system for your Visitor Attraction
The VE:Forum, in partnership with Indigo and BOP Consulting, has produced this CRM guide to provide a framework for visitor attractions to evaluate their existing system(s), or explore the possibility of investing in a new one. It draws on the experiences of a number of visitor attractions who have recently changed systems or considered changing systems. Alongside the attractions … Read more
How to…co-create an exhibition with your community
A step-by-step toolkit written by Lauren Benetua, Nina Simon and Stacie Marie Garcia. Published by Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.