Research Paper on:
A Program of Audience Development Assessment

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The way in which museums are promoted and audience development programmes take place will often reflect a range of features Lessons learned from visitor studies indicate the way in which  certain presentations and projects will work, in addition the local social, political and environmental issues may also be relevant. In looking at a particular a museum or organisation and  the way in which audience development projects have take place and the presentation of that museum the relevance of theory may be seen reflected in practice. The chosen museum  is actually a collection of museums in a single location specialising in a single appeach. The Wigan Pier experience is an eight and a half acre site, looking at life  in Victorian Wigan, complete with the social problems as well as the economic realities. There is The Way We Were Museum where life in 1900 Wigan can be experienced, not  only seen. This is an interactive museum where the visitors become a part of the environment as not only items are seen, it is an landscape of nostalgia which they  walk though as if transported back to that time. There is a working mill steam engine that can be experiences, and at Opies Museum of Memories there is the ability  to experience the entire twentieth century in a single day. The audience development looks to both entrainment and also education. One of the more recent programmes the audience  development over the 2003 Spring half term hollidays. This is aimed at children, but they all need to be accompanied by parents. There are two special programmes. The first is  to experience the way in which Victorians actually lived, not in general terms. But though an everyday occurrence; how they did the washing. Called "Washday Blues" children are able to