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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792067003321

Autore

Roppola Tiina

Titolo

Designing for the museum visitor experience / / Tiina Roppola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-135-09059-9

0-203-07028-3

1-299-28005-6

1-135-09060-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in museum studies ; ; 5

Disciplina

069

Soggetti

Museum exhibits

Museum exhibits - Social aspects

Museum visitors

Museums - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simultaneously published in the UK"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Envisaging the Discipline -- Exhibition Design as Mediation -- "Experience" in Museums -- Deconstructing Visitor Experience -- Framing -- Resonating -- Channelling -- Broadening -- Design for Exhibition Ecologies.

Sommario/riassunto

Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure activity. But how much do we really know about the moment-by-moment transactions that comprise the intricate experiences of visitors? To strengthen the disciplinary knowledge base supporting exhibition design, we must understand more about what 'goes on' as people engage with the multifaceted communicati