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Experimental Museology: Institutions, Representations, Users book cover

1st Edition

Experimental Museology Institutions, Representations, Users

Edited By Marianne Achiam, Michael Haldrup, Kirsten Drotner Copyright 2021
240 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Experimental Museology scrutinizes innovative endeavours to transform museum interactions with the world. Analysing cutting-edge cases from around the globe, the volume demonstrates how museums can design, apply and assess new modes of audience engagement and participation. Written by an interdisciplinary group of researchers and research-led professionals, the book argues that museum... Read more

Introduction: For an experimental museology

Michael Haldrup, Marianne Achiam and Kirsten Drotner

Part I: Institutions

  1. Experimental museology: Immersive visualization and cultural (big) data

Sarah Kenderdine

2. Museography and performativity: Performance design for impossible objects and immersive displays

Rodrigo Tisi Paredes

3.Reflecting on experimental museology at the Museum of Memory of Colombia

Jennifer Carter and Cristina Lleras

4. Across the doorway: Developing post-critical museology from a closed university museum

Erika Grasso and Gianluigi Mangiapane

Part II: Representations

5. Colonial heterotropics and global heritage Aesthetics in Roundhay’s Tropical World, Leeds

Rodanthi Tzanelli

6. Advocacy of shock: How to bring art to life (and its visitors with it)

Mieke Bal

7. Museological organisations in Brazil: Between doors and grids

Wescley Xavier, Diana Castro and Vanessa Brulon

8. Experimental innovation in museums: Encouraging creativity, building confidence and creating social value

Haitham Eid

Part III: Users

9.Exhibitions as a collaborative research space for university-museum partnerships

Palmyre Pierroux, Birgitte Sauge and Rolf Steier

10. Transforming astrophysics in a planetarium: ‘We are part of the universe, the universe is part of us’

Line Nicolaisen, Marianne Achiam & Tina Ibsen

11.Participatory design as concept and practice in the experimental museum: The case of the Workers Museum

Anne Scott Sørensen

12. Experimental museology: Implications and perspectives

Kirsten Drotner, Michael Haldrup and Marianne Achiam

Biography

Marianne Achiam has a PhD in science education, and is Associate Professor at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research is concerned with how the science of scientists becomes embodied in science education and communication contexts (e.g. museums) to eventually become the science of the public.

Michael Haldrup is Professor (wsr) in visual culture and performance design at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has written extensively about　the performance turn in cultural/social theory, especially with regard to heritage and leisure/tourism studies,　including　Performing tourist places (Ashgate, 2004) and　Tourism, performance and the everyday　(Routledge, 2009) and about design and experience-based communication. 

Kirsten Drotner is Professor of media studies at the University of Southern Denmark and director of two national R&D programmes DREAM and Our Museum. Her research interests include children’s media and information literacies, digital co-creation and creative learning, and digital museum communication.

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