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title	Evaluation on Elderly Friendly Programs in Museums, using Museum Well-being Measure
author(s)	Eun Yong Kwon (SungKyunKwan University)
Keywords	well-being, elderly friendly program, museum programs for seniors, evaluation method
Abstract	As Korea is one of the world’s fastest aging societies, there is a growing attention and need of cultural well-being programs designed for the elderly. In response to the situation, museums have expanded its roles and functions from being a space for collection and display of arts to a planner and provider of diverse programs for the senior citizens and with these changing roles of museums, demand is also growing for evaluation on the cultural welfare of these programs. In 2015, University City London research team developed “Museum well-being measure toolkit”, funded by Arts and Humanity Research Council, as a method to examine performance evaluation indices used in programs for the elderly in healthcare and welfare sector. When they published the study result, the team also released application method of the toolkit to non-profit organizations free of charge. The toolkit was used by a number of museums in UK and Europe to assess their elderly-friendly programs. Van Gogh Museum applied the toolkit to measure and evaluate performance of “Elderly meet Van Gogh Program”, the museum’s well-known age-friendly program from 2014, and published a result report in 2017. In Korea, a number of senior-focused museum programs were launched in 2005 without a clear guideline for performance evaluation. This paper aims to introduce “Museum well-being measure toolkit” and its case studies in Korea as a useful barometer to benchmark.
file	Eun Yong Kwon.pdf