| Museums have always been prominent locations on | | | | facilities and increase the appeal of the museum. This |
| the tourist map in any city. This is because museums | | | | study could certainly benefit other museums faced |
| host a variety of articles pertaining to the different | | | | with a similar predicament and in a similar position. |
| civilizations and cultural periods prevalent in that city | | | | Some of the striking realizations of the study were |
| and the visitor gets a complete idea about the | | | | as follows: |
| history and culture in a few hours. | | | | People would prefer museums, especially those that |
| Museums also generate a good deal of revenue for | | | | are large and take a day to complete, to equip |
| the local government. But museums have to keep | | | | themselves with a cafeteria or an eating place. |
| abreast with the times. Failure to do so will result in | | | | Visitors suggested rebuilding or modifying certain |
| them becoming boring as they are facing tremendous | | | | dangerous structures like staircases or galleries, |
| competition from the newly built adventure parks and | | | | provided it did not damage the original structure. One |
| other theme parks. Further the smaller museums are | | | | of the biggest requirements was the need for |
| generally privately managed. Though they may get a | | | | resources providing sufficient information and content |
| grant they have to run themselves through effective | | | | on the items displayed. Overall, the public was pretty |
| management of ticket and other item sales. | | | | satisfied with the general quality and content of the |
| Thus museums need to update themselves appear | | | | matter on display and found no serious faults here. |
| attractive to the masses if they want to survive. | | | | Probably the single most important reason for the fall |
| One such museum facing a downward trend in | | | | in popularity was the competition it was facing from |
| visitors was the Cambridge & County Folk Museum. | | | | the recently constructed amusement parks. Also the |
| In order too counter this it decided to undergo some | | | | newly developed and sprawling shopping malls ate |
| major developments and renovations and conducted | | | | into a lot of the sightseeing time and restricted the |
| various studies and investigations to help them in this | | | | visitors from enjoying the museum in its entire |
| matter. It surveyed people with regards to the | | | | splendor. One way to combat this would be to |
| facilities they would like to be provided with, the | | | | prepare exciting and colorful brochures that would |
| things that interest them, the attitude of the | | | | catch the eye of the younger generation and make |
| museum staff and other related information. This | | | | the museum appear to be a cool place to visit. |
| was done with a view to improve the service and | | | | |