Visiting the Visitor

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3289-7
Verlag: transcript Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 250 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 394 g

Reihe: Edition Museum

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Ann

Smeds, Kerstin

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement

Über Autor(innen)

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.