Title A Basic Study on 'Visitor Service Area' in a Korea Museum
Authors Shim, Seung-Hyun
Page pp.67-74
ISSN 12269093
Keywords Museum ; Visitor Service area
Abstract In the past, the exhibition and collection storage was only considered importantly in a museum. But nowadays a museum is important not only for the exhibition and collection storage but also for visitor service, education, curatorial etc. The purpose of this study is to analyze 'visitor service area' in the Korea Museum. Area means a set of similar function spaces. Areas in a museum are largely divided into 8 parts; exhibition, visitor service, collection storage, education, administration, curatorial, technical support and workshop. In previous studies, visitor service area consists of lobby, ticket office, information office, reference corner, cloak room, restaurant, lounge and museum shop etc. We study visitor service area currently consists of spaces in Korea museum. We find out the relationship between visitor service area and the other areas in the museum. And we study the pattern of space organization which are needed in spaces of visitor service area of the museum in the Korea.