support”13 into a fully operationalised aspect of the museum and gallery experience. To achieve this, she argues, there is a need to explore, as the LCGA case study does- “incremental innovation sustained over time that involves visitors in an ongoing participatory relationship with the museum” – by institutionalising experimentation in this way through our youngest visitors, there is potential to substantially shift the nature of wider audience engagement.13
Aoibhie McCarthy, a former Shinnors Scholar, is Education & Development Officer of The People’s Museum Limerick and Visual Art Curator of Galway Fringe Festival.
— 13. Fogelman, P. (2012) Innovative public programming of the future. In The challenges facing museums on-site and online in the 21st century and Future forecasting: The challenges facing museums and cultural institutions. Proceedings of the roundtable and symposium, The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 31
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