This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interac…
"The biggest trend in museum exhibit design today is the creative incorporation of technology. Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media explores the potential of mobile technologies (cell phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, and PDAs) for …
"This volume is the first English-language translation of Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance, Austrian art historian and curator Julius von Schlosser's pioneering interpretation of late Renaissance cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum"--
Documents the 2009 theft of an invaluable collection of ornithological displays from the Natural History Museum at Tring by a young American musician, tracing the author's years-long investigation to track down the culprit and understand his motives