Challenges to museum curatorial control of meaning, combined with interest in the reading positions of visitors, have led to the growth of interactive interpretation strategies. Such strategies, however, often privilege curatorial pre-determined responses and presuppose that visitors are disembodied, that actual bodies moving through exhibition spaces are not, in fact, the palpable reality of a museum experience. Visitors have a kind of textual invisibility. Consideration of visitor performativity and embodiment in museums poses an exhilarating museological challenge. Museums need to come to terms with the bodily aspects of a museum visit, understanding that visitors enact their narrations of the museum as they walk through it. This paper a...
The museum world has undergone radical change since the 1970s. Political and economic pressures have...
This paper discusses the object in a museum context and the different ways in which space is used w...
This paper presents ‘narrative’ as a theoretically informed qualitative perspective to e...
Challenges to museum curatorial control of meaning, combined with interest in the reading positions ...
This paper discusses the definition of museology as a form of information science and analyzes the a...
This thesis examines the conceptualization of the visitor within the discursive construction of the ...
This article argues that museum visiting and the act of ‘spectatorship’, both of which are often ass...
The present paper is an enquiry on the contribution of bodily and sensory forms of engagement in the...
This thesis presents a new model of the museum visitor experience. My model analyses the dynamic int...
This paper presents a new definition of museum. In so doing, it departs from five principles: that t...
Museum and culture studies traditionally approach social issues related to national museum narrative...
Patterns of accessibility through the space of the exhibition, connections or separations among spac...
For almost one century in museums, constant debates have dealt with accessibility of their contents ...
Museums establish specific contexts, framings, which distinguish them from viewing the world face-to...
For the visitors who frequent them, museums are a gateway and a window to culture, a place where “ch...
The museum world has undergone radical change since the 1970s. Political and economic pressures have...
This paper discusses the object in a museum context and the different ways in which space is used w...
This paper presents ‘narrative’ as a theoretically informed qualitative perspective to e...
Challenges to museum curatorial control of meaning, combined with interest in the reading positions ...
This paper discusses the definition of museology as a form of information science and analyzes the a...
This thesis examines the conceptualization of the visitor within the discursive construction of the ...
This article argues that museum visiting and the act of ‘spectatorship’, both of which are often ass...
The present paper is an enquiry on the contribution of bodily and sensory forms of engagement in the...
This thesis presents a new model of the museum visitor experience. My model analyses the dynamic int...
This paper presents a new definition of museum. In so doing, it departs from five principles: that t...
Museum and culture studies traditionally approach social issues related to national museum narrative...
Patterns of accessibility through the space of the exhibition, connections or separations among spac...
For almost one century in museums, constant debates have dealt with accessibility of their contents ...
Museums establish specific contexts, framings, which distinguish them from viewing the world face-to...
For the visitors who frequent them, museums are a gateway and a window to culture, a place where “ch...
The museum world has undergone radical change since the 1970s. Political and economic pressures have...
This paper discusses the object in a museum context and the different ways in which space is used w...
This paper presents ‘narrative’ as a theoretically informed qualitative perspective to e...