Outline of the day
Shining a spotlight on the distinctive opportunities and challenges of providing an excellent visitor experience in military museums, including welcoming visitors and generating visitor income.
Presentation by Dawn Watkins, National Army Museum
Deputy-chair, Chris Munns, welcomes delegates to the HMMN seminar
Outlining the ambitious plans of the National Army Museum's "Building for the Future" project focusing especially on the significant improvements to visitor services embedded in the redevelopment
Presentation by Rebecca Dalley, Royal Air Force Museum
Presenting the visitor research conducted at the museum to inform capital and audience development projects and provide vital evidence to support funding bids
Presentation by Ann Bevan and Margaret Marks, The Diving Museum
Introducing the visitor offer at the Diving Museum, which was recently voted one of the most Family Friendly Museums in the country
The presentation also showed the Kids in Museums film "How I see it!" produced by young people about what they like about museums.
Find out more about it here
Presentation by Lena Samuels, Hampshire Cultural Trust
Showing a brief video about the Hampshire Cultural Trust (available here), which celebrated its first anniversay on 1 November 2015, this was an opportunity to discuss how the Trust and HMMN may work together in the future