Describe your museum and feedback goals. Makeform turns the brief into a visitor survey with exhibit ratings, accessibility questions, and open comments.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a starting point, adjust it to your museum, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Visitors leaving a museum after a self-guided visit
Format
Two-minute exit survey with ratings and comments
Prompt size
255 chars
Example survey structure
Two-minute exit survey with ratings and comments
Which galleries did you visit?
How would you rate your overall visit?
How easy was it to move through the museum?
What should we improve?
How likely are you to return?
Suggested routing tags
Exhibit feedback
Accessibility follow-up
Visitor services
Keep exhibit names in a dropdown so responses can be compared without cleaning up spelling variations.
Step 1
Ask
focused questions for this visit
Step 2
Collect
QR, link, kiosk, or website responses
Step 3
Segment
compare exhibits and visitor groups
Step 4
Improve
turn recurring feedback into action
Useful visitor feedback
Connect an overall score to galleries visited, obstacles encountered, and memorable moments so teams know what to discuss.
Rate exhibits, interpretation, staff, amenities, and wayfinding separately to expose fixable problems.
Show follow-ups only for a selected exhibition, program, or access feature.
Keep exhibit names and scores structured while open comments preserve explanations.
One builder, several audiences
Start with the closest audience and replace the sample galleries, programs, and services with your own.
A short exit survey covering galleries visited, overall experience, staff, facilities, and intent to return.
Questions about interpretation, memorable sections, learning, ticketing, and missing perspectives.
Optional, respectful questions about routes, seating, sensory conditions, media, and available supports.
Program fit, student engagement, facilitation, logistics, and requested classroom resources after a group visit.
Survey workflow
Build around a clear decision, test with staff, then share while the visit is fresh.
Name the exhibition, audience, and decision, such as revising labels or improving routes.
Add real gallery names, label rating scales, and remove questions the team will not use.
Preview on a phone, check branches and keyboard use, and time a sample response.
Share by email or QR code, compare ratings, and group recurring comment themes.
Choose a collection method
Choose a channel for immediate recall, longer reflection, or staff-assisted participation.
Field guide
Connect visitor impressions to exhibits, services, access, and future planning with six focused sections.
Visit context
Ask when the visit happened and which galleries or programs the person used, keeping different experiences distinct.
Overall experience
Use one labeled overall rating, then ask whether expectations were met and whether the visitor would return.
Exhibits & interpretation
Separate content quality from labels and media. Ask what was memorable and which perspectives felt missing.
Access & comfort
Ask about routes, seating, sensory conditions, captions, restrooms, and support without requiring health details.
Services & staff
Cover arrival, wayfinding, staff, cleanliness, and amenities, with follow-ups only for services used.
Open feedback & context
End with an improvement question. Ask only for audience details the team will analyze.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for museum staff planning visitor, exhibition, accessibility, and program feedback.
A museum survey form collects ratings and open feedback about exhibits, interpretation, services, accessibility, and the overall visit. Staff can compare results while reading comments that explain each score.
Ask which galleries or programs were visited, then cover overall experience, label clarity, wayfinding, staff, amenities, accessibility, intent to return, and one improvement. Add audience details only when useful.
Keep an exit survey to high-value questions visitors can answer quickly. Email surveys can include more detail. Test on a phone and remove questions that do not inform a decision.
Ask about entrances, routes, seating, text, captions, sensory conditions, restrooms, and support. Make questions optional and do not require disability or medical details to report a barrier.
Yes. Use a gallery selection and conditional logic to show its rating and comment questions. Visitors get a shorter survey and curators get correctly matched feedback.
Yes. Put the published link in a QR code where visitors pause. You can also use follow-up messages or a website embed, with a non-digital option when needed.
Yes. Makeform includes unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and collect visitor feedback without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Compare ratings by exhibition, program, visit type, and period. Group comments into themes such as labels, seating, sound, or wayfinding, consider operational context, and track core questions after changes.
Turn visitor impressions into a practical feedback loop.
