Capturing Visitor Experiences for Study and Preservation

The Courtauld Gallery occupies a unique position in central London as a university art museum and key facilitator for collaborative opportunities between research academics and curatorial practitioners. Given the context of the gallery as an institution housed within a building not purpose-built for the function of exhibition, the ways in which the gallery space acts as a directive on visitors’ viewing patterns is of particular interest. This paper introduces a methodology of documenting and visualizing those patterns.