Museum Hour takes place on Twitter on Monday nights 8 - 9pm. It is regularly hosted by a team of four people working in various museums but they also invite guest hosts to propose subjects to discuss. On Monday 20 April I was the guest host, focusing on evaluation. You can follow the promo tweets and then the conversation via the eight questions I posed by clicking on the various date links below. Thanks to #MuseumHour twitter.com/museumhour for having me!
Promos:
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 18/04/2020, 20:00 Join us on Monday 20 April at 8pm (UK time) for #MuseumHour with freelancer @particip8tion focusing on the topic evaluation after recently overhearing someone say: 'Evaluation? Why are we doing this? Who is it for anyway?' Hit 'like' if you'll be joining in on Monday! pic.twitter.com/ot9tHI1UYL
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 19/04/2020, 20:00 To get ready for tomorrow night's #MuseumHour discussion focusing on evaluation with me @particip8tion take a look at this Evaluation Guide for Community Arts Practitioners
by #CreativeVictoria bit.ly/2VoTDJa pic.twitter.com/yyLwiH7knq
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 08:00 To get ready for tonight's #MuseumHour discussion focusing on evaluation with me @particip8tion take a look at The Cultural Learning Evidence Champion's Handbook by @theRSAorg bit.ly/3bdGitV pic.twitter.com/3d4cReMaZQ
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 19:00 This is your 1 hour countdown to #MuseumHour tonight with me @particip8tion focusing on evaluation pic.twitter.com/a37Xyl8oPm
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 19:56 This is your 5 minute countdown to #MuseumHour tonight with me @particip8tion focusing on evaluation. Grab a cuppa, get yourself comfy and be ready to chat... pic.twitter.com/KMHxGjRtaw
Questions:
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 20:00 Q1. Welcome to #MuseumHour focusing on evaluation hosted by me, freelancer @particip8tion Today is in response to me overhearing someone say: ‘Evaluation? Why are we doing this? Who is it for anyway?’ To get us started how would you define ‘evaluation’? #MuseumHour
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 20:05 Q2. What kinds of evaluation methodologies have you been involved in within museums & galleries thinking about both the quantitative & the qualitative? Either as an evaluator or as a participant #MuseumHour
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 20:15 Q3. Who is your evaluation for? Which stakeholders? Why are you actually doing it? #MuseumHour
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 20:20 Q4. What is the most important thing you have learnt from evaluation? Has it ever given you that ‘eureka’ moment? #MuseumHour
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 20:30 Q5. Who carries out the evaluation in your organisation? Is it in-house or do you bring in external evaluators? What do you think are the pros & cons of each? #MuseumHour
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 20:35 Q6. What usually happens to your evaluation reports? How are they actioned & by whom? (Hands up who has forgotten about an evaluation & left it on a shelf to gather dust ) #MuseumHour
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 20:45 Q7. How do you see the future of evaluation? Is there something you’d like to see more of or less of? Have you seen any innovative evaluation approaches you’d like to share? #MuseumHour
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 20:50 Q8. During the COVID-19 outbreak with museums being closed & staff remote working, have you individually or as part of your organisation been evaluating/reflecting on your current practices? If so in what ways? Are you approaching this in a different way to usual? #MuseumHour
MuseumHour (@museumhour) 20/04/2020, 21:05 Thanks to everyone who joined in tonight & to @museumhour for having me as a guest host. Apologies for any missed tweets - they came thick & fast! Please feel free to continue the conversation with me @particip8tion #MuseumHour pic.twitter.com/Yc5zVFLhT1
