Title & Author:

Visiting the visitor : an enquiry into the visitor business in museums / Ann Davis, Kerstin Smeds (eds).

Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2016]
©2016

Description:

250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Museum ; volume 18

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Affect-based exhibition / Jennifer Harris -- Individual identity/Collective history : personalizing essence in the museum / M. Elizabeth Weiser -- Describing and understanding the experience of visitors / Daniel Schmitt -- Viewing the museum experience through an identity lens / John Falk -- Empowering the visitors : process and problems / Ann Davis -- Here comes everybody! : the visitor business in museums in light of existential philosophy / Kerstin Smeds -- Experiencing dialogue : behind curtains of museum performance / Bruno Brulon Soares -- Social representation theory and museum visitors / Aida Rechena -- A visitor-centered approach : enhancing museology with perceptual theory / Anna Leshchenko -- Reflections on Michall Bakhtin's dialogue versus the theory of mirror neurons / Vitaly Ananiev -- Who do you think they are? : museum visitor studies in Russia with a historical perspective / Vitaly Ananiev -- Acknowledged and empowered visitors in social Croatia : diachronic exploration / Žarka Vujić and Helena Stublić -- Following visitors' comments in designing a museum refurbishment : identity and authenticity / Maria Crisina Vannini -- From real thing to real experience : rethinking the museum experience / Wan-Chen Chang -- Museums and visitors : giving the lions power to the gazelle / Coltte Dufresne-Tassé.

Summary:

This book examines the changing view of museumship and museum visiting. Topics include the nature of museum-going and exhibition making, the visitor's identity, the role of techonology, and others.

ISBN:

9783837632897 (paperback)
383763289X (paperback)
(PDF)
9783839432891
3839432898

Subject:

Museum visitors.
Museum visitors Services for.
Museum visitors Biography.
Museums Public relations.
Visiteurs de musée.
Visiteurs de musée Services.
Musées Relations publiques.
Visiteurs de musée Biographies.

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Added entries:

Davis, Ann, 1946 October 31- editor.
Smeds, Kerstin, editor.
Edition Museum ; Bd. 18.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293781
Call No.: BIB 238955
Status: Available