Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions (Museum Meanings)

By: Suzanne MacLeod and Laura Hourston Hanks and Jonathan Hale

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Synopsis: Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and shaping of museums. Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions examines this re-making by exploring the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potential to connect on the deepest levels with human perception and imagination. Through this uniting theme, the chapters explore the power of narratives as structured experiences unfolding in space and time as well as the use of theatre, film and other technologies of storytelling by contemporary museum makers to generate meaningful and, it is argued here, highly effective and affective museum spaces. Contributions by an internationally diverse group of museum and heritage professionals, exhibition designers, architects and artists with academics from a range of disciplines including museum studies, theatre studies, architecture, design and history cut across traditional boundaries including the historical and the contemporary and together explore the various roles and functions of narrative as a mechanism for the creation of engaging and meaningful interpretive environments.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781136445743
Related ISBNs:: 9780203124574, 9780415676021, 9780415676021, 9780415676038, 9780415676038
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/29/20
Copyrighted By:: Suzanne MacLeod, Laura Hourston Hanks and Jonathan Hale
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Suzanne Macleod
Edited by:: Laura Hourston Hanks
Edited by:: Jonathan Hale