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Responding to the Holocaust Exhibition

This museum is taking part in a national project to find out more about the different types of learning that take place in museums, archives and libraries.

During your visit today you might be developing new …..

  • Knowledge and understanding
  • Values, attitudes and feelings
  • Skills
  • Creativity, inspiration and enjoyment
  • Behaviour

Please fill in this form as fully and as honestly as you can.

Results from some of this research will be published, but your responses will be anonymous.

You are …

1. Male or female?

Knowledge and understanding

2. What were you expecting to learn during this visit?

During your visit you did three things:

  1. An introductory session to the Exhibition
  2. A tour of the Exhibition with the soundguide
  3. A feedback session

3. Which of these three things was the most useful to you for your studies at school?

ABC

4. Describe how it was useful – give some examples of what you learned from it.

Values, attitudes and feelings

5. Were you looking forward to this visit?

YesNo

6. Has this visit – seeing the Exhibition and being able to talk about it afterwards – made you feel any differently, or more strongly, about the Holocaust?

Yes No

7. Please tell me more about your feelings here

8. Was there anything in particular that made you feel very strongly about this subject – perhaps something that you saw, heard or talked about today?

Skills

9. Did you learn a new skill today – such as looking at a museum object differently, or thinking in a different way, or talking things over in a group?

YesNo

10. Please describe this.

Creativity, inspiration and enjoyment

11. Have you made any new connections between the Holocaust and other moral or political issues?

YesNo

12. Please tell me more

Behaviour

13. You came to the Museum as part of your school studies. How has this visit today been different to learning at school?

14. Have you behaved differently here to the way that you normally behave at school?

YesNo

15. If you have behaved differently, try to explain why.

16. Will you talk or think (or have you already talked, thought) about this visit again – about the feelings or issues that it raised for you?

Yes No

17. Can you say how you’ll do this – with friends, family, in class at school or by yourself?

18. Will this change the way you think or behave in the future? How?

Phew! Thank you for filling this in – it is really useful for us to know your responses and thoughts about your visit.