Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415885751 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 276 str.

Juliette Fritsch

Opis

This text publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design and management can help museum visitors learn about art.

Spis treści

1. Introduction . Juliette Fritsch  Part I: Situating Interpretation in the Museum Context  2. "The Museum as a Social Instrument": A Democratic Conception of Museum Education. George E. Hein  3. Invoking the Muse: The Purposes and Processes of Communicative Action in Museums. Paulette M. McManus  4. Interpretation and the Art Museum: Between the Familiar and the Unfamiliar. Cheryl Meszaros, eds. Jennifer J Carter, Twyla Gibson  Part II: The Role of Interpretation in Art Galleries  5. Towards Some Cartographic Understandings of Art Interpretation in Museums. Christopher Whitehead  6. Art for Whose Sake? Sue Latimer  7. The Seeing Eye: The Seeing "I". Sylvia Lahav  8. Part III: How Can We Define the Role of Language in Museum Interpretation? Juliette Fritsch  Part IV: Interpretation, Personal Experience, and Memory  9. "I loved it dearly": Recalling Personal Memories of Dress in the Museum. Torunn Kjolberg  10. Welcome to My World: Personal Narrative and Historic House Interpretation. Mariruth Leftwich  11. Narrative Museum, Museum of Voices: Displaying Rural Culture in the Museo Della Mezzadria Senese, Italy. Marzia Minore  Part V: Evidence-Based Practice   12. An Evaluation of Object-Centered Approaches to Interpretation at the British Museum. Steve Slack, David Francis and Claire Edwards  13. The Other Side of the Coin: Audience Consultation and the Interpretation of Numismatic Collections. Effrosyni Nomikou  Part VI: Interpretive Strategies for Specific Audiences  14. Designing Effective Interpretation for Contemporary Family Visitors to Art Museums and Galleries: A Reflection of Associated Problems and Issues. Patricia Sterry  15. Interactive Gallery Interpretation for Design Students: Help or Hindrance? Elizabeth Dyson  16. Empower the Audience! How Art Museums Can Become Enriching Creative Spaces for a Wider Audience through Deliberate and Strategic Use of Experience and Learning Theories. Karen Grøn  Part VII: Process and People  17. "Reading the Walls": A Study of Curatorial Expectation and Visitor Perception. Sarah Ganz Blythe and Barbara Palley  18. "Education is a department isn’t it?" Perceptions of Education, Learning and Interpretation in Exhibition Development. Juliette Fritsch

O autorze

Juliette Fritsch is Head of Gallery Interpretation, Evaluation and Residencies at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The V&A recently completed £100 million gallery renovation project, for which Juliette led the gallery interpretation team. She is known for developing visitor-focused interpretation, and for innovative interpretation in art museums.