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Corporate museums are facilities where companies showcase their history and interests in a museum-like setting. Similarly to traditional museums, they pursue cultural, social and economic performance goals. Differently from traditional museums, they also seek high organizational performance, because of their connection with their parent company. Given this business affiliation, the current systems to trace performance in traditional museums appear inadequate. Despite this peculiarity, today there are no studies on performance measurement systems for corporate museums. The present study aims to fill this knowledge gap by exploring how to design a performance measurement system to measure corporate museum performance. A collaborative action research project with Museimpresa, the Italian National Association of Corporate Museums, led to this discussion on a comprehensive and modular performance measurement system for this sector. The paper also offers suggestions on the process and the roles for development, which practitioners could find helpful in future implementations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Expanding a city's cultural influence through museums is a growing trend in local efforts to promote cultural advancement and communication in China in the context of international engagement in the new era. Chengdu Museum, which opened its new venue to the public in 2016, has emphasized the importance of engagement with foreign visitors as a key focus of its recent development. This aligns with Chengdu's goal of establishing itself as a world-renowned cultural and creative city during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025). This paper summarizes the approaches of renowned Chinese and foreign museums to expanding their international influence, citing examples such as the British Museum, the Louvre Museum, and the National Museum of China. Based on a case study of Chengdu Museum's efforts to enhance its international communication capacity since 2016, several suggestions are put forward for urban museums regarding how to increase research capability, create a media matrix, and develop cloud exhibition platforms. This study aims to provide some insights for museums to effectively integrate resources to preserve urban culture urban culture and enhance the global influence of Chinese culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The digital transformation is affecting museums. New technologies such as applications, beacons, QR codes, virtual guides, holograms, touchscreens, and augmented reality are commonly adopted. Although much research was conducted on how visitors perceived the adoption of new technologies by museums, little is known about the reaction of the staff. Individual predispositions such as resistance to change, AI anxiety, and attitudes towards robots were used as the independent variables. This paper presents the research conducted on 220 museum employees. The results suggest that museum staff react to the decision on the adoption of social robots cognitively, emotionally, and behaviourally. Negative cognitive reactions are elicited by earlier negative attitudes towards interactions with robots. Negative emotional reactions are associated with earlier negative attitudes towards interactions with robots and the fear of being replaced. Ultimately, behavioural reactions are elicited by all of the above along with the anxiety of learning new technological skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitalisation of museum education. To date, most research has focused on visitors’ experiences with and museums’ management of digital museum education. This leaves the voice of museum educators underresearched. Museum educators, however, are the main drivers of this digital transformation. Therefore, this study explores the voice of museum educators. Semi-structured online interviews were conducted with twelve museum educators working in museums in the Brussels Capital Region (Belgium). We identified opportunities and challenges of digital museum education related to three key stakeholders of museums, i.e. museum visitors, museum educators, and museum institutions. Partnerships seemed key to overcome challenges in developing digital museum education. By exploring museum educators’ experiences, we provide a broader and multi-layered understanding of digital museum education on which practice and research can build further. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The enhancement of scientific research capabilities among museum personnel—personnel is a crucial aspect in driving the advancement of museums. However, it is observed that museum personnel in Chinese mainland, particularly the younger ones, have not demonstrated sufficient engagement in this regard. The objective of this paper is to investigate the underlying causes of this phenomena. This study employs in-depth interviews with a sample of 10 young museum personnel. The methodology is guided by Weiner's Cognitive (attribution)-emotion-action model (CEAM) of motivation framework. The findings indicate that there are 14 elements that influence the motivation of museum personnel to engage in scientific research. These characteristics are associated with three aspects of attribution, namely Locus, Stability, and Controllability. Especially, the "external-stable-uncontrollable" and "external-unstable-uncontrollable" two attribution will serve as a catalyst for museums to enhance their efforts in optimizing the research willingness of their professionals, so facilitating the provision of sustained and immediate support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the impact of VR experiences in museums on visitor satisfaction and revisiting intentions, focusing on presence and authenticity perceptions. While VR as an educational tool does not directly affect VR satisfaction, its entertainment and esthetic value can foster re‐engagement with the technology. Moreover, the results indicate that satisfaction with the VR experience does not directly translate into museum revisit intentions. Visitors currently perceive VR as an additional feature rather than part of the exhibition program. The research underlines the need for early‐stage VR content development that integrates a stronger connection to original exhibits and promotes VR as a tool to boost interest and visits. Additionally, this study suggests that VR should aim to implement existential authenticity created through a sense of presence, rather than portraying objective authenticity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the transformative potential of contemporary museum architecture, emphasizing the intricate relationship between management requirements and spatial design. Contemporary museum practice must adapt to diverse visitor preferences and secure operational funding beyond public sources by increasing ticket sales through personalized visitor pathways. This necessity has led to a growing trend of reconfiguring permanent collections via temporary exhibitions to enhance performance and revenue. The study aims to demonstrate the strategic utilization of material and technical opportunities within museum structures, underscoring the critical role of spatial organization in optimizing functional arrangements and enriching the visitor experience. Methodologies include integrating museum management needs into architectural design and employing revised spatial configurations to improve accessibility and connectivity. A case study of the City Museum of Belgrade's central building illustrates these methodologies' application, enhancing direct access to galleries and expanding potential walking routes. Detailed analysis reveals that redesigned museum layouts can significantly boost efficiency, performance, and visitor satisfaction, thereby supporting the overall sustainability of cultural institutions. This approach enables traditionally resistant public museums to adapt to modern challenges by developing services and programs that attract diverse audiences and enhance visitor experiences, ultimately contributing to their economic, environmental, social, and cultural sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to develop a digital retrieval system for art museums to solve the problems of inaccurate information and low retrieval efficiency in the digital management of cultural heritage. By introducing an improved Genetic Algorithm (GA), digital management and access efficiency are enhanced, to bring substantial optimization and innovation to the digital management of cultural heritage. Based on the collection of art museums, this study first integrates the collection's images, texts, and metadata with multi-source intelligent information to achieve a more accurate and comprehensive description of digital content. Second, a GA is introduced, and a GA 2 Convolutional Neural Network (GA2CNN) optimization model combining domain knowledge is proposed. Moreover, the convergence speed of traditional GA is improved to adapt to the characteristics of cultural heritage data. Lastly, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), GA, and GA2CNN are compared to verify the proposed system's superiority. The results show that in all models, the sample output results' actual value is 2.62, which represents the real data observation results. For sample number 5, compared with the actual value of 2.62, the predicted values of the GA2CNN and GA models are 2.6177 and 2.6313, and their errors are 0.0023 and 0.0113. The CNN model's predicted value is 2.6237, with an error of 0.0037. It can be found that the network fitting accuracy after optimization of the GA2CNN model is high, and the predicted value is very close to the actual value. The digital retrieval system integrated with the GA2CNN model has a good performance in enhancing retrieval efficiency and accuracy. This study provides technical support for the digital organization and display of cultural heritage and offers valuable references for innovative exploration of museum information management in the digital era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapid growth of private museums, contemporary art, and the emergence of private collectors has changed public museums’ room for action and placed heightened pressure on museum directors worldwide. In recent years, Norway has witnessed a surge in extensive collaboration between publicly funded museums and private collectors. Based on qualitative interviews with eleven museum directors, this paper examines how they navigate and address criticism, challenges, and demands when collaborating with private actors, with a particular emphasis on private art collectors. Additionally, the study aims to uncover the opportunities that emerge from such collaborations. Findings reveal that public – private collaborations are seen as an inevitable solution for the future, driven by factors such as limited purchasing budgets, rising costs, and concerns about diminishing public support due to reliance on oil revenues. Despite facing challenges such as external criticism and collector demands, directors maintain an optimistic outlook regarding more public – private collaborations and advocate the opportunities they bring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital environments nowadays play a central role in creating value for organizations. In the cultural sector, the creation of value of organizations and in particular of museums is facing a paradigm shift in response to the contemporary demands of living in a hyperconnected world. Expression of a rapidly rising phenomenon in the hyperconnected digital scenario is represented by the use of the TikTok platform, whose value creation is based on interactive and multimedia contents. This research aims to explore through a mixed approach, the use that museums make of TikTok from a managerial perspective. The study highlights the use of a generally informal language structured on a predominantly aesthetic and non-scientific component, capable of attracting and interactively engaging heterogenous targets, especially less art-sensitive audiences like digital natives. Despite the enormous potential it represents, this social media is still little used by museums and little explored by the scientific community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores the hidden gendered curriculum concealed in the texts, exhibitions and other structural devices of museums and what they teach visitors to see and think. Grounded in conceptualisations of culture, representation, and language, past feminist studies of museums and applying feminist visual discourse analysis (FVDA) we found hiding in plain sight in public museums in Canada and England a diversity of 'languages' that subversively aggrandised masculine power and privilege and (re)inscribed negative or limited understandings to women which we argue as feminist adult educators have epistemic, identity and agency consequences. We also argue that whilst museums are trying to address often centuries old exclusionary gendered practices progress is slow because these practices are so embedded and unconscious and reflect pervasive social notions of 'common sense'. Our study makes an important contribution to feminist museum studies by rendering visible a web of complex structural and textual gendered biases and to adult education. By adding museums to our curricula we can provide our students with a visual and immersive way to hone the critical visual literacy skills needed to understand more fully how both seen and unseen languages operate not just in the museum, but across society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generation Y visitors, the largest portion of the population, are now passionate about traveling to an attractive destination and are open to new experiences. Museums, which traditionally attracted older visitors, are beginning to adapt and evolve to better connect with younger visitors, especially Generation Y, who have different desires and expectations. This quantitative research examines the museum management factors influencing Generation Y visitors' decision-making to visit museums. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 400 Generation Y Thai museum visitors. The data were analyzed using binary logistic regression. The results reveal four factors affecting Generation Y visitors' decision-making to visit museums--facilities, interpretation, technology/innovation, and activities--with a statistical significance of 0.05. The museum focusing on Generation Y visitors should provide facilities, interpretation, activities, technology, and innovation, as this study recommends. Therefore, the museum management focusing on Generation Y visitors should strive to create new experiences through interactive and innovative activities, aligning with technology to satisfy, excite and engage this generation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The impacts of climate change on heritage collections in Mediterranean museums are serious and lead to accelerated material degradation, loss of value, increasing conservation costs and climatisation. Climate change scenarios and simulation models have been developed to predict the extreme and average future environmental conditions and to assess the future long-term risks caused by global warming for museum buildings and their collections in Mediterranean countries, with Egypt being particularly at risk. This paper presents the results of the risk analysis of the indoor and outdoor environments in Alexandria Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) in Egypt to provide an overview of the current situation of conservation and museum management and to provide evidence-based data to support decision-making regarding preventive conservation given the museum's limited funding, capacity and resources. Unfortunately, the air quality in the museum cannot be considered satisfactory and specific measures need to be taken to improve the level of air quality and museum and building management. The results enabled an assessment of indoor air quality and provided information on potential risks to the museum building and collections, including variations in temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH), concentrations of NO2, SO2, O3, CO2, acetic and formic acid and lighting conditions, as well as the location and management of the museum. The results necessitate the development of a preventive conservation plan to address the challenges associated with high T/RH fluctuations and pollution pressure. This requires more regular use of the HVAC system within certain T/RH set points as well as minimising light exposure and the use of UV-filtering glazing. Care should be taken to ensure that housekeeping and emergency preparedness reduce the damping and salt florescence in the museum building. However, dealing with the impact of climate change on indoor and outdoor environments and museum collections in Mediterranean museums requires a holistic and adaptive approach that includes joint collaboration, research, training and strategic planning to ensure the long-term preservation of valuable cultural heritage collections in different climates with customised adaptations based on local environmental conditions, resources and needs. Resilience planning should be region-specific and take into account the potential impacts of extreme weather events, sea level rise and other climate-related challenges.

The impacts of climate change on heritage collections in Mediterranean museums are serious and lead to accelerated material degradation, loss of value, increasing conservation costs and climatisation. Climate change scenarios and simulation models have been developed to predict the extreme and average future environmental conditions and to assess the future long-term risks caused by global warming for museum buildings and their collections in Mediterranean countries, with Egypt being particularly at risk. This paper presents the results of the risk analysis of the indoor and outdoor environments in Alexandria Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) in Egypt to provide an overview of the current situation of conservation and museum management and to provide evidence-based data to support decision-making regarding preventive conservation given the museum's limited funding, capacity and resources. Unfortunately, the air quality in the museum cannot be considered satisfactory and specific measures need to be taken to improve the level of air quality and museum and building management. The results enabled an assessment of indoor air quality and provided information on potential risks to the museum building and collections, including variations in temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH), concentrations of NO2, SO2, O3, CO2, acetic and formic acid and lighting conditions, as well as the location and management of the museum. The results necessitate the development of a preventive conservation plan to address the challenges associated with high T/RH fluctuations and pollution pressure. This requires more regular use of the HVAC system within certain T/RH set points as well as minimising light exposure and the use of UV-filtering glazing. Care should be taken to ensure that housekeeping and emergency preparedness reduce the damping and salt florescence in the museum building. However, dealing with the impact of climate change on indoor and outdoor environments and museum collections in Mediterranean museums requires a holistic and adaptive approach that includes joint collaboration, research, training and strategic planning to ensure the long-term preservation of valuable cultural heritage collections in different climates with customised adaptations based on local environmental conditions, resources and needs. Resilience planning should be region-specific and take into account the potential impacts of extreme weather events, sea level rise and other climate-related challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Istanbul University recently hosted an interdisciplinary congress on Ottoman astronomy, titled "Channels of Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ottoman World (14th-18th centuries)." The congress was organized by Dr. Gaye Dan¿¿an and Dr. Florence Somer in collaboration with the Department of the History of Science of Istanbul University and the Institut Francais d'Etudes Anatoliennes. The congress brought together speakers from various countries, including Turkey, Iran, the Netherlands, India, France, Russia, Germany, Thailand, Algeria, Egypt, Italy, Qatar, Spain, the UK, the US, Poland, and Uzbekistan. The congress aimed to foster collaboration and exchange among researchers with diverse backgrounds and shed light on the interdisciplinary nature of Ottoman astronomy. [Extracted from the article]

Specialized international organizations discuss museology on an ongoing basis. These institutions usually develop various recommendations that, despite not binding, are considered soft law norms since they influence the generation or modification of the internal law of the countries. However, the influence of these soft law norms will depend on how permeable the legal-administrative systems are. For this reason, this paper proposes to analyze the permeability of the countries of Latin America and The Caribean to global trends regarding museums based on the evaluation of four variables that reconstruct the degree of implementation of the recommendations issued by specialized international organizations. A traffic light methodology is adopted with a three-level assessment scale that describes the status of each country. The results show that the region’s countries present very different situations regarding the situation of their museums in the national system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Museums serve as essential repositories of cultural heritage, evolving over time to fulfill diverse societal needs. This paper explores the historical evolution and contemporary manifestations of museum spatial composition, emphasizing the pivotal role of architecture and technological integration. Through a comprehensive literature review and research design, the study elucidates the multifaceted nature of professional activities within museums and their impact on spatial organization. Key findings suggest that museums should integrate administrative-legal research, preservation efforts, exhibit management, and social engagement activities to create holistic and educational environments. Furthermore, the paper presents a spatial composition pattern diagram for museums, highlighting vital functional relationships among various spaces. This study lays the groundwork for future research into museum design and its implications for visitor experiences and societal perceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Like many National Park Service sites, Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument in Nevada has associated off- site legacy paleontological collections in museum repositories across North America. These legacy paleontological collections, which were created during past expeditions, are at risk of becoming forgotten or inaccessible, yet they hold the potential to revisit old questions and old sites utilizing new techniques, methods, and ideas. The authors present a case study that outlines a suggested framework to reconcile problematic or underutilized legacy paleontological collections based on the 2020-2023 inventory of the Southwest Museum Expedition Tule Springs Collection curated at the Autry Museum of the American West. The authors also explore the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to paleontological resource management. Digitization of associated historic archives and photographs can help assign updated geologic context to unprovenienced fossils, as well as locate historic paleontological sites for conservation and study. Legacy paleontological collections are also artifacts of the time of collection; the cultural context of fossil collections can be just as important as their geologic context. Although new data collection is beneficial for scientific inquiry and science-based natural resource management strategies, the importance of well-understood and accessible legacy paleontological collections for these efforts cannot be overstated. Revisiting these collections can facilitate scientific discovery by providing more accurate and comprehensive data to park staff and researchers. Paleontological and museum management programs and the scientific community will benefit from bridging the past and the present through an interdisciplinary approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Sustainable Museum is the first book to outline a coherent strategy for the direction of museums that relates to sustainability in the museum and cultural sector. It argues that museums must place sustainability at the centre of all their activities if they are to become key players with a clear societal role. It discusses the issues that museums will face as they take on their new role. The book makes it clear that change is necessary, but also provides guidance on how to achieve it. To this end, specific concepts and approaches to sustainability are related to the various aspects of museum operations. The book provides a practical guide to implementing sustainability management in a museum, but also addresses the challenges that practitioners face and shows what the future of the sustainable museum could look like. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a documentary institution, museums within tertiary institutions have the potential to support and be supported by various scientific fields. This study aims to map the potential of museums in line with the Independent Learning Independent Campus (MBKM) and find out scientific collaborations that can strengthen the existence of museums in tertiary institutions in the context of MBKM. This study used a qualitative approach, using data collection techniques in the form of observation, literature review, and in-depth interviews with three supporting informants and one key informant. The study found that the higher education museum has great potential and fulfills all the requirements as an MBKM partner. Museums can be partners for internships, entrepreneurial projects, technology projects, social engineering applications, and even humanitarian projects. Museums can collaborate in informal educational activities, exchange of experts, teaching practitioners, research, and community service, all of which can involve lecturers and students from various fields of science.

Introduction. The transformation of the museum, the modernization of its activity as an object of the recreation industry in the context of cultural recreation, the transfer of knowledge in a new, interesting and accessible form caused the need to update traditional expositions, intensify exhibition activities and, as a result, change its communication policy. However, today in the theoretical and practical planes of socio-cultural management, the issues of its marketing communications remain unresolved, the main task of which is to help increase attendance, expand the museum audience, or spread information about the museum among those who are unable to directly familiarize themselves with its exposition. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the study is to determine the communication strategy of the regional museum on the example of the communal cultural institution “Kremenchuk Local History Museum” and to represent a series of communication events as a component of its PR activity. The purpose of the research is realized by performing the following tasks: determining the ideals, interests and values of the potential museum audience, as well as optimal communication channels; representation of developed PR activities aimed at establishing communication between the museum and visitors and promoting its popularization. Results. The article clarifies the results of a sociological survey conducted at the initial stage of the research in order to find out the direction of modeling special PR events for the promotion of the Kremenchuk Local History Museum and identifies a number of PR events aimed at establishing communication between the museum and visitors and promoting its popularization. Conclusions. The use of the latest marketing strategy paradigm together with the implementation of digital infrastructure will allow improving the processes of the museum management system, modernizing its main mechanisms, popularizing museum institutions and their services.

"The Anticolonial Museum: Reclaiming Our Colonial Heritage" is a book that challenges the traditional models of decolonial museologies in ethnographic and contemporary museums. The author argues that these museums have historically excluded and dehumanized the cultures of the "other," perpetuating colonial violence. The book proposes reshaping and reorienting museums to repair past injustices and invites communities to redefine cultural heritage and denounce the violence produced by museums. It also explores the concept of redistribution of agency through cocuratorship and collaborative practices. Overall, the book offers alternative modes of thinking to decolonize museum practices and integrate marginalized voices. [Extracted from the article]

This study investigates the transformative potential of contemporary museum architecture, emphasizing the intricate relationship between management requirements and spatial design. Contemporary museum practice must adapt to diverse visitor preferences and secure operational funding beyond public sources by increasing ticket sales through personalized visitor pathways. This necessity has led to a growing trend of reconfiguring permanent collections via temporary exhibitions to enhance performance and revenue. The study aims to demonstrate the strategic utilization of material and technical opportunities within museum structures, underscoring the critical role of spatial organization in optimizing functional arrangements and enriching the visitor experience. Methodologies include integrating museum management needs into architectural design and employing revised spatial configurations to improve accessibility and connectivity. A case study of the City Museum of Belgrade’s central building illustrates these methodologies’ application, enhancing direct access to galleries and expanding potential walking routes. Detailed analysis reveals that redesigned museum layouts can significantly boost efficiency, performance, and visitor satisfaction, thereby supporting the overall sustainability of cultural institutions. This approach enables traditionally resistant public museums to adapt to modern challenges by developing services and programs that attract diverse audiences and enhance visitor experiences, ultimately contributing to their economic, environmental, social, and cultural sustainability.

It is a widely accepted trope that museums work for future generations. They often define themselves in relation to heritage: something of the past, which is celebrated in the present and securely preserved for the future. In doing so, museums cloak themselves in a shroud of respectability for appropriately thinking in short and long terms and bravely facing future challenges. But what kind of future is at stake in this imperative to secure a heritage for future generations? Taking on a deliberate speculative tone and a philosophical outlook, this essay attempts to address this question by suggesting that museums organize their work on the basis of three futures, entirely riveted to an economic understanding of temporality. Against these, the essay also proposes a fourth future that not only gives impetus to their existence, but also provides them with the only way out of the economic temporalities that govern their existence.

Art museum's brand management of any organization cannot be achieved overnight but requires long-term continuous accumulation with all aspects of operation. Nowadays, major art museums in China are scrambling to be the first to work diligently on exhibition forms and service innovation, which can be imitated hastily, but what remains in the public mind is the art museum brand that cannot be simulated or replaced. How to attach importance to brand building from a strategic perspective, and the method of integrating and allocating art museum resources more effectively through brand building is an inevitable problem for every art museum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: In the midst of a growing interest for engaging communities in funding museums ruled by the National Administration of Spain, a comparative study between their governance and financing, and the ones from the private US model, together with the Smithsonian Institution´s public museum system, provides insights to face the future of public museums´ economic sustainability. With the goal of inspiring new approaches to national museums´ management in Spain, this paper is pioneer in analyzing the funding of these cultural institutions under the perspective of the restricted or unrestricted nature of the different assets and its weight within the revenue mix. Method: This research is based on the study of both, primary sources (museums´ annual reports, its financial statements, bylaws and other rules applicable to the Spanish museum´s public policy), and secondary sources from the extensive literature about museum financial management in the US, and the few approaches to this topic in Spain. Results: The comparative analysis states, on one hand, the similarities between seemingly opposite Spanish and American museums´ schemes, and on the other hand, the deep differences within national museums, in terms of financial opportunities (those managed by the Deputy Directorate General for National Museums, and the ones with specific bylaws). This last group of museums has developed a greater revenue mix through auxiliary activities, in a partially similar way regarding American museums operations. Conclusions: This paper concludes with a proposal to address the issue of increasing private funding for Spanish national museums. It involves patronage´s composition, its funding role, the nature of critical income sources, or the use of marketing and fundraising techniques, among other aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected the world's cultural institutions, as well as driving digitization and a change in the relationships with their audiences. This study explores how the most visited art-museums in Spain have reacted through their social networks to the pandemic. Two key moments, the confinement and a period one-year after the declaration of the health crisis are compared. A mixed method by combining a content analysis of 2392 publications on Twitter and Instagram and two regression models evidence that COVID-19 has been a turning point in the management of museum communication in digital ecosystems. The main findings highlight the importance of active listening and the ability of these channels to create experiences beyond the physical visit. The strategic value of its implementation is underlined. Practical implications are included and it emphasized the role of entertainment and social support of the museums in crisis situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Museum Mandala Wangsit Siliwangi is a historical tourist destination located in Bandung City. One of the management approaches for tourist destinations in Indonesia is the implementation of Sapta Pesona. However, in reality, there are inconsistencies, including levels of beauty, hospitality, and memorable experiences that do not meet visitors' expectations. Therefore, this research aims to provide recommendations to the government, the management of the Museum Mandala Wangsit Siliwangi, and other tourism industries regarding the implementation of Sapta Pesona. The study also explores the efforts undertaken by the Museum Mandala Wangsit Siliwangi's management to enhance Sapta Pesona. This research adopts a qualitative descriptive method, utilizing interview and observation techniques, supported by relevant journal literature. The findings reveal a gap in the implementation of Sapta Pesona at the Museum Mandala Wangsit Siliwangi, affecting both its application and visitors' experience quality. This research strives to contribute to the enhancement of Sapta Pesona's implementation for improving visitor experience quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]