Aligning Museum Building Projects with Institutional Goals: A Visitor Experience Centered Approach

The University of Michigan Museum Studies Program’s series of “Working Papers in Museum Studies” presents emerging research from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, all focused on the multiple concerns of the modern museum and heritage studies field. Contributions from scholars, members of the museum profession and graduate students are represented. Many of these papers have their origins in public presentations made under the auspices of the Museum Studies Program. We gratefully thank the authors published herein for their participation.This paper was first presented as part of the University of Michigan Museum Studies Program’s “Issues in Museum Studies” lecture series on March 11, 2010. Ipek Kaynar Rohloff is a Five College Mellon Fellow; Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. She received her PhD in Architecture, received certification in Museum Studies, and was awarded a Fellowship for Doctoral Research in Museums from the University of Michigan. kaynar.ipek@gmail.comhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/102518/1/6_kaynar_2011_0.pd