This study focuses on objects and meaning in the museum. How do museum visitors interpret the collections they see on display and how are these interpretations influenced by the pedagogic approach taken by the museum?.
This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture. This work explores such questions as: How and why is it that museums select …
Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture focuses on objects and meaning in the museum. How do museum visitors interpret the collections they see on display, and how are these interpretations influenced by the pedagogic approach taken by the museum? Questions about the ch…
Presenting complex spatiotemporal environmental and cultural archaeological site information in traditional museum exhibits is a challenge. The site data exists, meticulously documented in modern archaeological mapping processes, but is not always effectively communicated to the…
The goal of this thesis is to illustrate the importance of video art through a spatial and aesthetic phenomenological framework, revealing the critical nature of aesthetic experiences for forming meaning between art-objects and viewers facilitated through acts of curation. Video…
"The fascination of exhibitions lies not only in the objects on display but also in the dynamic interplay of communication, knowledge, interaction, experience and contemplation. This book examines the different phases of exhibition creation using a range of examples taken from t…
