Creating the visitor centered museum draws together a number of international examples of successful visitor centred museum making and explores what it is that makes them so successful the case studies at the heart of the book provide insight into the experiences and aims of directors the function and purpose of multi discipliciplinary teams the emergence of experience designers and the changes that many curatorial and other staff feel themselves move throughas a result of what are often . Creating the visitor centered museum is the result of a study in which samis and michaelson visited twenty museums studied ten of them in depth and interviewed a range of pro fessionals . Creating the visitor centered museum fulfills the authors goals to chart the waters and contribute to the conversation regarding the relevancy and sustainability of art museums as stewards of public culture the text is well written and organized. Creating the visitor centered museum peter s samis mimi michaelson no preview available 2016 about the author 2016 peter samis is associate curator of interpretation at the san francisco museum of modern art he has a ba from columbia university and an ma in art history from uc berkeley samis served as art historian content expert