Introduction : challenging history in the museum / Jenny Kidd -- The emotional museum : the case of National Museums Liverpool / David Fleming -- Telling hard truths and the process of decolonising indigenous representations in Canadian museums / Bryony Onciul -- Ripples in the …
Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V & A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery …
1. Introduction / Juliette FritschPart 1 Situating interpretation in the museum context2. The Museum as a social instrument : a democratic conception of museum education / George E. Hein3. Invoking the Muse : the purposes and processes of communicative action in museums / Paulet…
Fostering empathy through museums
"Fostering Empathy through Museums features ten case studies with clear take-away ideas, and lessons learned by vividly illustrating a spectrum of approaches in the way museums are currently employing empathy, a critical skill that is relevant to personal, institutional, economi…
Blind Visitor Experiences at Art Museums seeks to answer two questions: 1. Given the guiding principle of visual art being understood only by sight, what do people understand when sight is diminished or not present? 2. Moreover, given the experience of blindness, what are the ef…