Beschreibung:
In museums, visitors are immediately drawn to striking or iconic objects, but there are many less conspicuous but important items which illustrate cultural contexts and content and are equally deserving of their attention. The authors of Museums and Silent Objects, offer a methodology for judging the quality of museum exhibitions from the visitor's perspective, and offer practical tools for museum professionals to evaluate displays, and design new galleries and exhibits. Fully illustrated and based on studies of world-famous galleries, this book is essential reading for those creating effective museum displays.
1: Introduction; 1: Exhibiting Objects - Theories and Concepts; 2: Architecture and Space Syntax; 3: Design and Design Idioms; 5: Cognitive Science, Flow and Beauty; 5: Museum Studies: Object Biographies, Learning Styles, Levels of Interpretation; 2: From Concepts to Practice; 6: Testing the Concepts in Three London Museums; 7: Concepts and Comparisons: The Three Galleries; 8: Mummies, Objects, Visitors, and Stories at the British Museum; 3: Beyond the Visual; 9: Hands on the Past at the British Museum; 10: Experiments with Sound, Colour and Interaction; 11: Sound, Colour and Interaction: What We Learned; 4: Effective Exhibitions; 12: Harmony in Ancient Egypt; 13: Reviewing the Findings; 14: Conclusions: Effective Exhibitions