Museum of the past was for certain elite persons through the collection and preservation of historical data. However, in modern times came, the function of museum on society, public and educational portions was stronger, the proportion of interpretati...
Museum of the past was for certain elite persons through the collection and preservation of historical data. However, in modern times came, the function of museum on society, public and educational portions was stronger, the proportion of interpretation of the exhibits was greater. In other words, the role of communication in modern society is emphasized in the museum, providing the necessary information required in the visitors was important to promote communication. About these exhibits or promoting communication on exhibition increases satisfaction in exhibition.
While this researcher in terms of marketing the museum was working on the problem of communicating with visitors, I noticed that visitors with a lot of experience got less docent-usage satisfaction than those with less experience which are described in Yoon Eun-Hui (2005) study. With this mind, I began to study how to satisfy the visitors with a lot of experience.
Because the satisfaction on the exhibition is correlated with the type of display and exhibition guide which are used by visitors, I have investigated on docent and mobile guide with relatively high utilization. First introduced in 1996, many research institutions have investigated on docent and its satisfaction. However, art museum exhibitions of another type of PDA type mobile guide for the first time introduced in Leeum- Samsung Museum of art, opened in 2004, got a relatively short history compared with docent, so its comparative study for each museum was not sufficient.
In addition, when each museum was splitted according the personality, the suitable type of the exhibitions was not discussed much according to the property of museum. So I have investigated docent explains and mobile guide for many visitors with a lot of experience which are not studied, to have a greater satisfaction and continuous visit. In addition, I have investigated on which type of the exhibitions are suitable according to the type of museum.
All five chapters of a research study described the background, objectives and research methods and suggested the need for more active and diverse exhibition types in the introduction, chapter 1.
In chapter 2, through the concept of docent and mobile guide, their role and significance were explored and compared with the museum's exhibition guide.
In chapter 3, through the similarities and differences in docent and mobile guide at the museum, their characteristics were investigated.
In chapter 4, as a study on the visitor's satisfaction, first, the definition of visitors was given by comparing patterns of behavior of them. The definition of satisfaction introduced in the marketing concept is connected to the exhibition tour, suggesting the satisfaction on the exhibition visit. The next two rounds of the survey results were analyzed. A first survey in May 2009 against 50 visitors at National Museum and a second survey in 2010 from February to March at the National Museum and Leeum- Samsung Museum of art against 210 visitors were conducted. Through the two rounds of surveys, how to visitors having a lot of experience satisfy was compared with other types of museum exhibitions (Docent, Mobile Guide) and alternative was proposed.
In the final conclusions, chapter 5, differential alternative according to viewing experience and appropriate information for each type of museum type proposed were suggested to improve the satisfaction. At the same time, creative strategy for commentary exhibits will improve the satisfaction on the modern art.