Visiting the Visitor: An Enquiry Into the Visitor Business in Museums

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...

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Main Authors: Davis, Ann (Author), Smeds, Kerstin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:German
Published: transcript Verlag 2016
Series:Edition Museum 18
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Online Access:DE-B1533
DE-525
DE-860
DE-859
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9783839432891

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