Visiting the Visitor : : An Enquiry Into the Visitor Business in Museums / / ed. by Kerstin Smeds, Ann Davis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Ananiev, Vitaly,; Chang, Wan-Chen,; Davis, Ann,; Dufresne-Tassé, Colette,; Falk, John,; Harris, Jennifer,; Leshchenko, Anna,; Rechena, Aida,; Schmitt, Daniel,; Smeds, Kerstin,; Soares, Bruno Brulon,; Stublić, Helena,; Vannini, Maria Cristina,; Vujić, Žarka,; Weiser, M. Elizabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Davis, Ann,; Smeds, Kerstin,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Museum ; 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Affect-based Exhibition --; Individual Identity/Collective History --; Describing and Understanding the Experience of Visitors --; Viewing the Museum Experience through an Identity Lens --; Empowering the Visitors --; Here Comes Everybody! --; Experiencing Dialogue --; Social Representation Theory and Museum Visitors --; A Visitor-Centered Approach --; Reflections on Michail Bakhtin's Dialogue versus the Theory of Mirror Neurons --; Who do you Think they are? --; Acknowledged and Empowered Visitors in Socialist Croatia --; Following Visitors' Comments in Disigning a Museum Refurbishment --; From Real Thing to Real Experience --; Museums and Visitors --; Authors' Biographies
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839432891; 9783110701005; 9783110485103; 9783110485158; 9783110701012; 9783110489842; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839432891?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Kerstin Smeds, Ann Davis.

The study of the museum visitor has undergone radical transformation. Each author here has asked unfamiliar questions and responded with fresh answers. Some of these questions involve the visitor's identity, what she brings to her museum experience. Can we gain entry into this experience? Does more technology really increase access to the objects themselves? Others probe the very nature of museum going and exhibition making, demanding that we reexamine the traditional exhibition to reposition the visitor and her meaning-making at the centre. The volume provokes imaginative research and encourages new conclusions.