Current opinion states that museums and galleries need to demonstrate their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service functions through recognizing the needs of their visitors and becoming more adept at providing enjoyable and worthwhile experiences.
Current opinion states that museums and galleries need to demonstrate their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service funct...
This study focuses on objects and meaning in the museum. How do museum visitors interpret the collections they see on display and how are these interpretations influenced by the pedagogic approach taken by the museum? Questions about the character of visual narratives, cultural difference and the construction of identities present the museum as part of cultural politics. A new museum idea - the post-museum - is about to transform the familiar modernist museum. Eilean Hooper-Greenhill explores specific objects and collections in detail: the founding collections at the National Portrait...
This study focuses on objects and meaning in the museum. How do museum visitors interpret the collections they see on display and how are these interp...
Collecting together a group of talented writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, in depth, the most up-to-date approaches to museum communication including: museums as media; museums and audience; and the evaluation of museums.
Addressing the need for museums to develop better knowledge of visitor experience, this volume introduces a broad range of issues, and presents the ultimate how, why and who of museum communication.
Museum, Media, Message combines philosophical discussion, practical examples and case studies and examines museum...
Collecting together a group of talented writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, in depth, the most up-to-date approaches to museum comm...
This edition incorporates articles of the late 1990s that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences. The text covers broad themes relevant to providing for all museum visitors and also focuses specifically on educational groups. Contents include: new communication models for the museum; problems in visitor orientation and circulation; increased exhibit accessibility through multisensory interaction; education - at the heart of museums.
This edition incorporates articles of the late 1990s that address the relationships of museums and galleries to their audiences. The text covers broad...
Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and galleries must demonstrate their social relevance and use. This means developing their public service functions through becoming more knowledgeable about the needs of their visitors and more adept at providing enjoyable and worthwhile experiences. Museums and Their Visitors aims to help museums and galleries in this crucial task. It examines the ways in which museums need to develop their communicative functions and, with examples of case-studies, explains how to achieve best...
Museums are at a critical moment in their history. In order to ensure survival into the next century, museums and galleries must demonstrate their soc...
