Dani's Day 20 Reflections

July 2nd, 2016

Art Splash

The activity that is associated with the Power Figures provided context for the figures and asked probing questions related to function. The activity that's associated with the cloths and cups asked visitors to assemble patterns that resembled those on the artifacts. The reliquary guardian figure activity was missing its pieces, but it seemed to have the same objective as the cloth/cup activity. When I was at the museum, majority of visitors weren't interacting with the activities much. Families tended to spend most of their time doing the larger Art Splash activity in the hall outside. Many people still walked past the Look Again exhibit but I also found that the larger Art Splash activity actually drew people's attention away from all of the galleries. I walked through the other galleries as well. All of the activities either provided context or prompted the visitors to focus on patterns and feel. People didn't seem to interact them much either.

Some notable behavior that could be added to timing/tracking include:

• Parent asking child questions about the artifact or activity
• Parent answering a question about the artifact or activity
• Parent motioning child to look closer
• Parent physically bringing a child to look at a specific artifact or activity