Reports, Conferences, and Publications
COVES Aggregate Report - CY25: A Closer Look
Dive in to our newest aggregate report, where we take a closer look at visitors and their unique identities. In this report we explore the question: How do different visitors perceive our museums and the experiences offered?
The data shared in Understanding Our Visitors: A Closer Look were ...
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COVES Aggregate Report - CY24
Does your annual reporting cover the calendar year, instead of the July-June fiscal year that COVES usually reports? We have good news for you! This year's Annual Visitor Snapshot includes data for January - December 2024 collectively gathered at 78 COVES institutions across the United States. In th...
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COVES Aggregate Report - FY24
We’re back at it with the third aggregate report from COVES! Since our last report, COVES has grown substantially and now represents a wider variety of museum types, including art, children’s, history, natural history, and science. In this report we share data from July 2023 ̵...
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COVES Aggregate Report - FY19
The second aggregate report for the field from COVES is here! Here is the aggregate report of all of the data gathered by 21 museums in the past year, free to the field. This report is the second of its kind, and one we hope will spur conversations in your institution about who our visitor...
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COVES Aggregate Report - FY18
At long last… the FIRST aggregate report for the field from the COVES initiative! After 3 years of building, testing, tweaking, discussing, and finally launching the system for gathering ongoing visitor information from across science centers, science museums, and other museums ...
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