1st Edition

The Art of Museum Exhibitions How Story and Imagination Create Aesthetic Experiences

By Leslie Bedford Copyright 2014
    168 Pages
    by Routledge

    168 Pages
    by Routledge

    Leslie Bedford, former director of the highly regarded Bank Street College museum leadership program, expands the museum professional’s vision of exhibitions beyond the simple goal of transmitting knowledge to the visitor. Her view of exhibitions as interactive, emotional, embodied, imaginative experiences opens a new vista for those designing them. Using examples both from her own work at the Boston Children’s Museum and from other institutions around the globe, Bedford offers the museum professional a bold new vision built around narrative, imagination, and aesthetics, merging the work of the educator with that of the artist. It is important reading for all museum professionals.

    partOne Contemporary Exhibition Theories; Chapter 1 Exhibitions as Education; Chapter 2 Alternative Exhibition Models; partTwo Constructing a New Model; Chapter 3 Story; Chapter 4 Imagination; Chapter 5 John Dewey and Art as Experience; partThree Working in the Subjunctive Mood; Chapter 6 Creating and Experiencing the Exhibition Medium; conclusion Conclusion;

    Biography

    Bedford, Leslie