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General
Q.1
How old are you?
17 or below.
18-24
25-34
35-44
45-54
55-64
65 or above.
Q.2
What is your primary reason for visiting a museum?
To learn about an exhibit/subject unfamiliar to you.
To see unusual or rare objects.
To interact with exhibits and other visitors.
To see an exhibit/subject that you already know something about.
Q.3
Have you visited a museum or archive in the past:
Month
6 months
12 months
24 months
Q.4
Rank the following in order of your interest:
Manuscripts
Objects once owned by authors.
Recreations of an author's environment (i.e. desk/room/house).
Portraits or likenesses.
Q.5
Please explain your answer to question four:
Q.6
Rank the following in order of your interest:
Finding out about an author's biography.
Exploring how an author worked.
Seeing objects the author used.
Learning about the era in which the author was writing.
Q.7
Do you see literary artefacts as:
Artworks in their own right, regardless of written content.
Objects that can help explain an author's published work.
Curiosities that reveal something about the author's life.
Things that are fragments of a larger interpretative puzzle.
Q.8
What would you prefer?
A structured, clear interpretation to be supplied with the artefact.
Some context, but space to interpret the artefact yourself.
Collaborative interpretation with other visitors.
No contextual or interpretative writing at all.
Q.9
Rank the following ways of learning about an exhibition in order of preference:
A self-guided audio tour.
A guided tour by an expert.
A video or lecture by an expert.
No guide at all.
Q.10
Crowdsourcing is a way of presenting a collaborative approach to the interpretation of manuscripts using digital technology. How likely are you to take part in a crowdsourcing project in a museum environment?
Very Likely.
Somewhat likely.
Depends on the project.
Not very likely at all.
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