Cogswell, Alexandra2023-03-012023-03-012015https://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/14146This qualitative study examined the ways that exhibit labels influence the process of engagement at a history museum. New labels were designed for an existing exhibit at a local museum. Volunteers were invited to visit and share their experience in a post-visit survey and interviews. The results suggest that labels can significantly influence visitor engagement, by initiating, extending, transforming, interrupting, or severing connections with display objects; that prior museum experience is a determining factor in museum visitors’ response to labels; and that to understand engagement in the museum, it is necessary to interact with visitors rather than simply observing them.text/xmlvii, 110 pageselectronicen-CAhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2master thesis2016-05-04Rose, EllenEducation