Marketing Communications Analysis of DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in 2009 and 2010

At times, when even state-financed museums and galleries are forced to manage the entrusted financial resources responsibly, create their own profits and raise funds for their operations from other than public sources, marketing communications become an important tool for reaching out to visitors as well as potential sponsors and other supporters. It is understandable that in private organizations, which gain only a relatively small percentage of their total budget from the state grants, are the marketing activities even more important. The bachelor thesis "Marketing Communications Analysis of DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in 2009 and 2010" characterizes the DOX centre, one of the biggest czech private galleries, describes its activities, analyzes the competition, target groups, and especially its communication tools. The most important points are then summarized by a brief SWOT analysis. The contribution of the work lies mainly in the comparison of the theory of museum marketing mostly from foreign-language literature and marketing practice realized by the czech institution of DOX centre. The essence of the work consists of the analysis of the components constituting the promotional mix of the DOX centre in the given period of time, the segmentation of target groups, and the identification of..