Increasing the number of visits has become an important task for the children’s
museum’s sustainable growth and educational learning experience.
Due to this facts, this study has been analyzed the relationship between the prior
experience and the number of visits. This study looked at the prior experience of the
86 families consisted with children aged 5 to 7 and parents at random among those
who visited the Seoul Children’s Museum. As a result, the number of Children in
private kindergartens was derived from 39.5 percent. It was 6 hours a day that 47.5
percents spent the time at educational institutions such as kindergarten and daycare
center. In addtion, the experience of visiting museums was 12.4 percent, the third time,
followed by the Kids Café (15.2 percent) and the amusement park (15.0 percent). And
The purpose of visit to museums of child and parents was to use leisure time (57
percent) for all family members. Furthermore, analyses of the relationship between the
prior experiences and the number of visits have resulted in an increase in the number
of children’s ‘period (of kindergarten or daycare center)’, ‘verbal stimulation’ at home,
and ‘father’s age’ factor. As a result, the Children’s Museum will have to pursue
sustainable growth and development through more diverse strategies, such as
establishing a closer collaboration with preschool education institution in the future.