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In this chapter, Boyd and Hughes reflect on the ability of the drawing/walking method of evaluating visitor experience of museums to capture emotional responses that elude more conventional methods of audience evaluation. In doing so, they return to the primary concern of the book to invite a cross-disciplinary conversation between cultural geography and museum studies for what one has to offer the other.
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Boyd, C.P., Hughes, R. (2020). Conclusion. In: Emotion and the Contemporary Museum. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8883-5_5
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