Visiting the Visitor: An Enquiry Into the Visitor Business in Museums (Museum)

Visiting the Visitor: An Enquiry Into the Visitor Business in Museums (Museum)
“by: Ann Davis (Author, Editor), Kerstin Smeds(Author, Editor)”
Publisher:Transcript Verlag
Publication Date: 15 Jun. 2016
Language:English
Print Length:250 pages
ISBN-10:383763289X
ISBN-13:9783837632897
Book Description
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.
About the Author
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.