Ben Gammon

  • What I do, where I work

  • I am a consultant specialising in interpretation and visitor research. I have worked for a wide range of different organisations including the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne; the Brisith Museum; Centre for Life, Newcastle; Tate Modern; Techniquest, Cardiff; Thinktank, Birmingham; and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
    A lot of my work revolves around assisting project teams to define target audiences and project objectives, develop exhibit ideas and conduct front-end and formative evaluation. I also run training courses in visitor research, exhibition interpretation and interactive exhibit development

Positions

  • Head of Learning & Audience Development at Science Museum

Website(s)

  • More about me

  • I was at the Science Museum, London for 15 years working on many of the major exhibition projects such as Challenge of Materials, the Wellcome Wing, Energy – Fuelling the Future and the new Launchpad gallery. I am a regular contributor to Heritage365 and am a Visiting Research Fellow at Kings College London

Recent publications & presentations

  • "Learning to generate dialogue: Theory, practice and evaluation."   Museums and Social Issues

    Fall 2007

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