The Museum as Experience: Learning, Connection, and Shared Space (Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities)

The Museum as Experience: Learning, Connection, and Shared Space (Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities)
by: Susan Shifrin (Editor)
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press
Publication Date: 2023/10/31
Language: English
Print Length: 184 pages
ISBN-10: 1641893710
ISBN-13: 9781641893718
Book Description
Museums have long been viewed as exclusive, excluding, and as antiseptic to intimacy. In the past few decades, however, humanized experiences―cultivated by curators, educators, artists, activists, and marketers alike―have emerged as the reason for being for these cornerstones of community. Such experiences are often possible only in museum settings, where cultural exploration, probing conversation, and safe risk-taking can occur in spaces now becoming sacred through inclusiveness.This book brings together an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the kinds of human experiences and interactions that have converted the once-sterile museum into a space of enlivenment and enrichment, as well as physical and emotional well-being. The essays focus for the first time on the uniquely human and humanizing experiences to be found in the collections, programs, exhibitions, and spaces of today’s museums.
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Museums have long been viewed as exclusive, excluding, and as antiseptic to intimacy. In the past few decades, however, humanized experiences―cultivated by curators, educators, artists, activists, and marketers alike―have emerged as the reason for being for these cornerstones of community. Such experiences are often possible only in museum settings, where cultural exploration, probing conversation, and safe risk-taking can occur in spaces now becoming sacred through inclusiveness.This book brings together an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the kinds of human experiences and interactions that have converted the once-sterile museum into a space of enlivenment and enrichment, as well as physical and emotional well-being. The essays focus for the first time on the uniquely human and humanizing experiences to be found in the collections, programs, exhibitions, and spaces of today’s museums. Read more