The Native American Plains Tipi, Brooklyn Museum
2007
Project purpose: Gather information about museum audiences' understanding and assumptions about the exhibition content.
Project conclusion: Visitors had superficial but deeply ingrained knowledge and assumptions about Native American and Plains Indian culture. They expected an exhibition that met their notions of an appropriate time period, presented historical objects, and reflected past traditions rather than contemporary culture.
Project relevance: The Brooklyn Museum recognized visitors' assumptions as it changed the layout of the exhibition in order to prepare visitors to engage with tipis as modern objects and Plains Indian culture as active participants in the modern world.
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