Luise Reitstätter and Carla-Marinka Schorr have published an excellent edited collection titled “Methods of Exhibition Analysis” (open access, in English and German) that showcases a wide range of research methods used to investigate visitors’ experience of exhibits and exhibitions. All the chapters are structured in very similar ways, making it easy for readers, academics and practitioners alike, to compare and contrast the opportunities and challenges of different methods.

I have a short chapter in the book titled “Video-Based Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis. Capturing the sequential organization of social interaction in exhibitions” the discusses how to collect and analyse video-recorded interaction in museums.