Designing for the museum visitor experience / Tiina Roppola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roppola, Tiina, author.

Series:

Routledge research in museum studies ; 5.

Routledge research in museum studies ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum exhibits.

Museum exhibits--Social aspects.

Museum visitors.

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure activity. But how much do we really know about the moment-by-moment transactions that comprise the intricate experiences of visitors? To strengthen the disciplinary knowledge base supporting exhibition design, we must understand more about what 'goes on' as people engage with the multifaceted communicati

Contents:

Envisaging the Discipline

Exhibition Design as Mediation

"Experience" in Museums

Deconstructing Visitor Experience

Framing

Resonating

Channelling

Broadening

Design for Exhibition Ecologies.

Notes:

"Simultaneously published in the UK"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-09059-9

0-203-07028-3

1-299-28005-6

1-135-09060-2

9780203070284

OCLC:

830160926