A Study On The Experience Of Audience Museum In Contemporary Art Museum

Unlike the traditional museum,the contemporary art museum includes not only a collection of fine art categories in the traditional sense, but also with the public collections that which is closely related to the daily life, these new art categories reveals the cultural and ideological trends in the new era. Contemporary art museum is different from the traditional art museum in its exhibits and operation mode planning. On the one hand, contemporary art works present the consciousness of the contemporary social problems, the contemporary art museum should make every effort to attract the visitor who are the main reflection on the subject. On the other hand,the installation art works usually require direct involvement of the visitor to experience their meanings. These two aspects are helpful to establish the visitor’s active relationship with the art museum, emphasizing the visitor’s participation, experience and reflection on interactive, laid the visitor’s irreplaceable importance. To sum up, the research of the contemporary art museum visitors has its significance.This essay is based on the theory of museum experience,by means of questionnaire and observation to explore and analyze the museum experience. On one hand, questionnaire method is used to explore the personal context and the social context, including the needs, motivations and impediments of museum viewers and their memories of the exhibition and interaction. On the other hand, observation method is used to explore the physical context, including the museum visitor’s general behavior and attention. The conclusion in the following areas:in personal context:1, Contemporary art museum visit has become a public activities, more than half of the visitors are "regular viewers."2,"non-pure art lovers" is the major crowd visiting the Contemporary art museum.3, The "regular viewers." and "normal viewers" want high quality works of art on permanent display in contemporary art museum and understand how the artists to create the works.4, The main motivation of the contemporary art museum visitors is to gain knowledge.Poor transportation connection of destinations impeded the visit mostly.5, The museum visitor’s memories of the exhibition indicates its success. In Social context:1, most of the contemporary art museum visitors will be accompanied by friends or family members to visit the contemporary art museum,2,When visiting the exhibit, the museum visitors interactive passively in the process. In physical context:1, Labeling efficiency and utilization of tour guiding system are not achieved the desired results.2,The exhibition planning needs to be strengthened, the tour route instructions is unclear,"museum fatigue" is frequently happened on the second floor.Finally, the suggestion is given about how to improve the job satisfaction in base of the findings above.