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

Visiting the Visitor : : An Enquiry Into the Visitor Business in Museums / / ed. by Kerstin Smeds, Ann Davis.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Ananiev, Vitaly,
Chang, Wan-Chen,
Davis, Ann,
Dufresne-Tassé, Colette,
Falk, John,
Harris, Jennifer,
Leshchenko, Anna,
Rechena, Aida,
Schmitt, Daniel,
Smeds, Kerstin,
Soares, Bruno Brulon,
Stublić, Helena,
Vannini, Maria Cristina,
Vujić, Žarka,
Weiser, M. Elizabeth,
HerausgeberIn:
Davis, Ann,
Smeds, Kerstin,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Edition Museum ; 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Affect-based Exhibition
  • Individual Identity/Collective History
  • Describing and Understanding the Experience of Visitors
  • Viewing the Museum Experience through an Identity Lens
  • Empowering the Visitors
  • Here Comes Everybody!
  • Experiencing Dialogue
  • Social Representation Theory and Museum Visitors
  • A Visitor-Centered Approach
  • Reflections on Michail Bakhtin's Dialogue versus the Theory of Mirror Neurons
  • Who do you Think they are?
  • Acknowledged and Empowered Visitors in Socialist Croatia
  • Following Visitors' Comments in Disigning a Museum Refurbishment
  • From Real Thing to Real Experience
  • Museums and Visitors
  • Authors' Biographies

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