Museum research begins with a simple question: what is the best part of this collection? Websites do not always reveal an institution's strongest material, so Ship Shape asks staff and visitors for recommendations. Museums can preserve cultural heritage and historical memory for people with different interests and ways of learning. Ship models may suit specialists, while interactive exhibits and dressing up can make the same history accessible to a wider audience. Local knowledge matters when an online description gives only a partial view of a collection.
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Profiling museums before the visit
Museum websites may omit their strongest material, while staff and visitor recommendations reveal collections and forms of interpretation worth seeing.