Visiting the Visitor
An Enquiry Into the Visitor Business in Museums
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2016
250 pages
978-3-8394-3289-1 (ISBN)
Description
The study of the museum visitor has undergone radical transformation. Each author here has asked unfamiliar questions and responded with fresh answers. Some of these questions involve the visitor's identity, what she brings to her museum experience. Can we gain entry into this experience? Does more technology really increase access to the objects themselves? Others probe the very nature of museum going and exhibition making, demanding that we reexamine the traditional exhibition to reposition the visitor and her meaning-making at the centre. The volume provokes imaginative research and encourages new conclusions.
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Ann Davis (PhD), retired, worked as a museum director and university professor in Calgary, Canada.
Kerstin Smeds (PhD) is a historian and professor of museology in Umeå University, Sweden.
Kerstin Smeds (PhD) is a historian and professor of museology in Umeå University, Sweden.
Content
- Cover Visiting the Visitor
- Table of Contents
- Introduction. Visiting the Visitor
- Affect-based Exhibition
- Individual Identity/Collective History. Personalizing Essence in the Museum
- Describing and Understanding the Experience of Visitors
- Viewing the Museum Experience through an Identity Lens
- Empowering the Visitors. Process and Problems
- Here Comes Everybody! The Visitor Business in Museums in Light of Existential Philosophy
- Experiencing Dialogue. Behind the Cur tains of Museum Performance
- Social Representation Theory and Museum Visitors
- A Visitor-Centered Approach. Enhancing Museology with Perceptual Theory
- Reflections on Michail Bakhtin's Dialogue versus the Theory of Mirror Neurons
- Who do you Think they are? Museum Visitor Studies in Russia with a Historical Perspective
- Acknowledged and Empowered Visitors in Socialist Croatia. Diachronic Exploration
- Following Visitors' Comments in Disigning a Museum Refurbishment. Identity and Authentity
- From Real Thing to Real Experience. Rethinking the Museum Experience
- Museums and Visitors. Giving the Lions Powers to the Gazelle
- Authors' Biographies
