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Visiting the Visitor An Enquiry Into the Visitor Business in Museums Ann Davis, Kerstin Smeds
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edition Museum
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums.
- Visitors.
- Object Relationships.
- Identity.
- Exhibitions.
- Museum.
- Cultural Management.
- Museum Management.
- Museology.
- Local Subjects:
- Museums.
- Visitors.
- Object Relationships.
- Identity.
- Exhibitions.
- Museum.
- Cultural Management.
- Museum Management.
- Museology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Davis/Smeds (eds.), Visiting the Visitor An Enquiry Into the Visitor Business in Museums
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2016
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Introduction 7 Affect-based Exhibition 15 Individual Identity/Collective History 39 Describing and Understanding the Experience of Visitors 55 Viewing the Museum Experience through an Identity Lens 71 Empowering the Visitors 89 Here Comes Everybody! 105 Experiencing Dialogue 127 Social Representation Theory and Museum Visitors 139 A Visitor-Centered Approach 153 Reflections on Michail Bakhtin's Dialogue versus the Theory of Mirror Neurons 165 Who do you Think they are? 171 Acknowledged and Empowered Visitors in Socialist Croatia 183 Following Visitors' Comments in Disigning a Museum Refurbishment 201 From Real Thing to Real Experience 213 Museums and Visitors 229 Authors' Biographies 249
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- ISBN:
- 9783839432891
- 3839432898
- OCLC:
- 1002233116
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