Museum Visits

Author : Eric Chevillard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300254112

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Museum Visits by Eric Chevillard Pdf

The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first time Éric Chevillard is one of France's leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose erudition and imagination honor the legacy of Swift and Voltaire--with some good-natured postmodern twists. This ensemble of comic miniatures compiles reflections on chairs, stairs, stones, goldfish, objects found, strangers observed, scenarios imagined, reasonable premises taken to absurd conclusions, and vice versa. The author erects a mental museum for his favorite artworks, only to find it swarming with tourists. He attends a harpsichord recital and lets his passions flare. He happens upon a piece of paper and imagines its sordid back story. He wonders if Hegel's cap, on display in Stuttgart, is really worth the trip. Throughout, Chevillard's powers of observation chime with his verbal acrobatics. His gaze--initially superficial, then deeply attentive, then practically sociopathic--manages time and again to defamiliarize the familiar with a coherent and charismatic charm. Daniel Levin Becker's translation deftly renders the marvels of the original, and a foreword by Daniel Medin offers rich contextual commentary, making a vital wing of French literature and humor newly accessible in English.

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits by The Open University Pdf

This 4-hour free course showed how to make a museum visit a memorable learning experience by using the available teaching resources to best effect.

Author : Graham Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136761645

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The Engaging Museum by Graham Black Pdf

This very practical book guides museums on how to create the highest quality experience possible for their visitors. Creating an environment that supports visitor engagement with collections means examining every stage of the visit, from the initial impetus to go to a particular institution, to front-of-house management, interpretive approach and qualitative analysis afterwards. This holistic approach will be immensely helpful to museums in meeting the needs and expectations of visitors and building their audience. This book features: includes chapter introductions and discussion sections supporting case studies to show how ideas are put into practice a lavish selection of tables, figures and plates to support and illustrate the discussion boxes showing ideas, models and planning suggestions to guide development an up-to-date bibliography of landmark research. The Engaging Museum offers a set of principles that can be adapted to any museum in any location and will be a valuable resource for institutions of every shape and size, as well as a vital addition to the reading lists of museum studies students.

Author : Gail Dexter Lord,Barry Lord
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0742504069

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The Manual of Museum Planning by Gail Dexter Lord,Barry Lord Pdf

An essential resource for all museum professionals as well as trustees, architects, designers, and government agencies involved with the dynamic world of museums and galleries.

Author : Seph Rodney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351695862

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The Personalization of the Museum Visit by Seph Rodney Pdf

The Personalization of the Museum Visit examines a fundamental shift in institutional behavior in museums located in the United States and the United Kingdom. Contending that art museums have moved toward a new paradigm of public engagement, it posits that modern museum visitors are treated as self-directed "clients", with the agency to make meaning for themselves. The book then considers how this change has come about, examining factors such as the onset of a new museology, an experience economy, and a marketing revolution. Drawing on extensive research undertaken at Britain’s Tate Modern, the book examines a range of issues, including visitor engagement, curatorial practice, and museum management. A visit experience that is customizable to the individual visitor, in which curators and marketers work together with visitor-clients to create an experience of personalized meaning, is, Rodney argues, rising in prevalence in the art museum field, but it is also being stymied by certain structural impediments. This book examines such obstacles, including institutional division of labor, long-standing conceptions, or misconceptions, of the museum’s mission, and the orientation of museums toward a certain conceptual model of their visitors. The Personalization of the Museum Visit is essential reading for scholars and students engaging with issues of visitor engagement, curatorial practice, and museum management. With a particular focus on the role of business interests and public policy, the book should also be of interest to those undertaking research in fields outside of museum and visitor studies.

Author : Laura Peers,Alison K. Brown
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781771990370

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Visiting with the Ancestors by Laura Peers,Alison K. Brown Pdf

In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had remained ever since. Exhibiting the shirts at the museums was, however, only one part of the project undertaken by Laura Peers and Alison Brown. Prior to the installation of the exhibits, groups of Blackfoot people—hundreds altogether—participated in special “handling sessions,” in which they were able to touch the shirts and examine them up close. The shirts, some painted with mineral pigments and adorned with porcupine quillwork, others decorated with locks of human and horse hair, took the breath away of those who saw, smelled, and touched them. Long-dormant memories were awakened, and many of the participants described a powerful sense of connection and familiarity with the shirts, which still house the spirit of the ancestors who wore them. In the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume is the story of an effort to build a bridge between museums and source communities, in hopes of establishing stronger, more sustaining relationships between the two and spurring change in prevailing museum policies. Negotiating the tension between a museum’s institutional protocol and Blackfoot cultural protocol was challenging, but the experience described both by the authors and by Blackfoot contributors to the volume was transformative. Museums seek to preserve objects for posterity. This volume demonstrates that the emotional and spiritual power of objects does not vanish with the death of those who created them. For Blackfoot people today, these shirts are a living presence, one that evokes a sense of continuity and inspires pride in Blackfoot cultural heritage.

Author : David Finn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985-09-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D02688261P

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How to Visit a Museum by David Finn Pdf

Tells how to plan a museum visit, gives advice on appreciating paintings, sculptures, and museum buildings themselves, and discusses special shows, permanent collections, and different types of museums.

Author : Sharon Macdonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781444334050

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A Companion to Museum Studies by Sharon Macdonald Pdf

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. Collects first-rate original essays by leading figures from a range of disciplines and theoretical stances, including anthropology, art history, history, literature, sociology, cultural studies, and museum studies Examines the complexity of the museum from cultural, political, curatorial, historical and representational perspectives Covers traditional subjects, such as space, display, buildings, objects and collecting, and more contemporary challenges such as visiting, commerce, community and experimental exhibition forms

Author : Eleonora Redaelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031120893

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Visiting the Art Museum by Eleonora Redaelli Pdf

Visiting the Art Museum: A Journey Toward Participation is a book about the visitor experience. It is written as a companion for visitors to and inside the art museum. The volume engages readers in transforming a common experience, the museum visit, into a sophisticated epistemological inquiry. The study of the visitor experience through an epistemological approach consists of the untangling of the academic disciplines that study and inform each step of this experience: urban studies, architecture, design, art history, art education, and nonprofit management. This journey follows a transformative bottom-up trajectory from experiential to epistemological, and, finally, reveals itself as empowering. The book unfolds as an edited volume, with chapters by different authors who are enthusiastic scholars in each discipline and addresses undergraduate students as citizens, master’s students as professionals, and scholars as teachers and researchers. Each reader will discover a kaleidoscopic world made of ideas, values, and possibilities for participation.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : African Americans
ISBN : PURD:32754076792724

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Establishment of an African-American Heritage Memorial Museum by United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials Pdf

Author : Barbara Y. Newsom,Adele Z. Silver
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 2255 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520309531

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The Art Museum as Educator by Barbara Y. Newsom,Adele Z. Silver Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Author : Rhiannon Mason,Alistair Robinson,Emma Coffield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351373081

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Museum and Gallery Studies by Rhiannon Mason,Alistair Robinson,Emma Coffield Pdf

Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics is an accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time. Taking a global view, it covers the key ideas, approaches and contentious issues in the field. Balancing theory and practice, the book address important questions such as: What are museums and galleries? Who decides which kinds of objects are worthy of collection? How are museums and galleries funded? What ethical concerns do practitioners need to consider? How is the field of Museum and Gallery Studies developing? This user-friendly text is an essential read for anyone wishing to work within museums and galleries, or seeking to understand academic debates in the field.

Author : Gail Anderson
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759115781

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Reinventing the Museum by Gail Anderson Pdf

This reader brings together 35 seminal articles that reflect the museum world's ongoing conversation with itself and the public about what it means to be a museum—one that is relevant and responsive to its constituents and always examining and reexamining its operations, policies, collections, and programs. In conjunction with the editor's introductory material and recommended additional readings these articles will help students grasp the essentials of the dialogue and guide them on where to turn for further details and developments.

Author : Ruth Rentschler,Anne-Marie Hede
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136377433

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Museum Marketing by Ruth Rentschler,Anne-Marie Hede Pdf

Museums have moved from a product to a marketing focus within the last ten years. This has entailed a painful reorientation of approaches to understanding visitors as ‘customers’; new ways of fundraising and sponsorship as government funding decreases; and grappling with using the internet for marketing. This book brings the latest in marketing thinking to bear on the museum sector taking into account both the commercial issues and social mission it involves. Carefully structured to be highly accessible the book offers: * A contemporary and relevant and global approach to museum marketing written by authors in Britain, Australia, the United States, and Asia * An approach that reflects the particular challenges museums of varying sizes face when seeking to market an experience to a diverse set of stakeholders: audience; funders; sponsors and government. * A particular focus on museum marketing in the 'Information Age' * Major case studies at the beginning and end of each section of the book, and smaller case studies within chapters The hugely experienced author team, includes both leading academics and practitioners to ensure the book has broad appeal and is both relevant, innovative and progressive in approach. It will be essential reading for students in museum studies, non-profit marketing, and arts management and marketing. It will also be equally relevant for professionals working in and managing museums and galleries, heritage attractions and ministries of arts.

Author : Vicky Woollard,Mr John Reeve,Ms Caroline Lang
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409485032

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The Responsive Museum by Vicky Woollard,Mr John Reeve,Ms Caroline Lang Pdf

What is the relationship today between museums, galleries and learning? The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It unravels the complex relationship of museums with their publics, and discusses today's challenges and the debates that have resulted. The highly experienced team of writers, including museum educators and directors, share their different experiences and views, and review recent research and examples of best practice. They analyse the implications of audience development and broadening public access, particularly in relation to special groups, minority communities and disabled people, and for individual self-development and different learning styles; they explore issues of public accountability and funding; discuss the merits of different evaluation tools and methodologies for measuring audience impact and needs; and assess the role of architects, designers and artists in shaping the visitor experience. The latter part of this book reviews practical management and staffing issues, and training and skills needs for the future. This book is for students, museum staff, especially those involved in education and interpretation, and senior management and policy-makers. This is a much-needed review of the relationship between museums and galleries and their users. It also offers a wealth of information and expertise to guide future strategy and practice.