This paper takes five cases as the study object, and explores museum evaluation respectively in UK, USA, and Canada, involving objectives, themes, indicators, criteria, evaluators, objects, procedures, and methodology. The empirical evidence of the study shows that public organizations and bodies take a lead in organizing evaluations; The subjects of evaluation are broad, yet without unified standards; Evaluations generally are independent with multi-stakeholder participation; Methodology for evaluation is evidence-based expert judgment; and evaluation cycles are varied according to the objectives and the scales of evaluations. Based on those judgments, the paper tries to propose suggestions for conducting science and technology museum evaluation in China.

UK  /  USA  /  Canada  /  museum  /  evaluation