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This book outlines a geographically-informed method of evaluating the emotional impact of museum exhibits. The authors have personally developed the method they describe over several years of working with the Museo Laboratorio della Mente in Rome and the Melbourne Museum in Australia. Informed by non-representational theories in cultural geography, this book offers solutions to museum staff for how they might evaluate aspects of visitor experience, such as emotions and embodied experience, which can be very difficult to assess using conventional approaches.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Museology, Cultural Geography, and Non-Representational.- Chapter 2 Exhibiting with Emotion.- Chapter 3 The Museo Laboratorio Della Mente.- Chapter 4 WWI: Love and Sorrow Exhibition.- Chapter 5 Conclusion.
About the author
Candice P. Boyd is an artist-geographer and Research Fellow in the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. Her interests are in therapeutic spaces, experiences of rurality, and contemporary museums. She is author of Non-Representational Geographies of Therapeutic Art Making and co-editor of Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts, both with Palgrave Macmillan.
Rachel Hughes is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her interests are public memory and museums in Cambodia, critical geopolitics, and geographies of international criminal justice. She is co-editor of Observant States with I.B. Tauris.
Summary
This book outlines a geographically-informed method of evaluating the emotional impact of museum exhibits. The authors have personally developed the method they describe over several years of working with the Museo Laboratorio della Mente in Rome and the Melbourne Museum in Australia. Informed by non-representational theories in cultural geography, this book offers solutions to museum staff for how they might evaluate aspects of visitor experience, such as emotions and embodied experience, which can be very difficult to assess using conventional approaches.
