Electronic Thesis/Dissertation

What makes a great visitor center experience? What draws a visitor to a place? Why do we visit different places? The answer is simple – to feel a new sense of belonging. To feel like you have learned something special about where you are. To start your adventure in the right direction.Standard visitor centers have gained a miserable reputation. They are boring, run-down and empty. In the modern information age of smart phones and the Internet – they have been left behind. The visitor centers of tomorrow will be the heart and soul of the city/park/place they are welcoming you to. They will give visitors a local’s perspective, a sense of belonging and welcome, and will make them feel right at home.This project will focus on transforming a local reclaimed landmark – the Central Terminal in Buffalo, NY – into a thriving, community-based cultural center. Visitor Centers should not remain empty shells of information, but instead become the living, breathing beginning of a traveler’s journey.

Author

• Kost, Sawyer Lennox

Language

• en

Keyword

• Visitor Center
• Exhibition
• Design
• Buffalo

Date created

• 2017

Type of Work

• Thesis or Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Exhibition Design

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Brown, Clare

Committee Member(s)

• Briggs, Nigel
• Bernat, Corey

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/ht24wj427

License

• All rights reserved

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