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{"title":"Museum Educators Perspective of Failure: A Collective Frame Analysis","authors":"Amber Simpson,&nbsp;Andrew Osterhout,&nbsp;Alice Anderson,&nbsp;Adam V. Maltese","doi":"10.1111/cura.12662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12662","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Museums offer a unique role and safe space in shaping how youth view and react to experiences with failure. The purpose of this study was to add to the conversation around failure in out-of-school learning, particularly from the perspective of educators within museum settings that implement STEAM-related making exhibits, workshops, and/or camps for youth. We analyzed approximately 9 h of video data from two sources: video recordings of virtual group meetings with 14 museum educators from six partnering institutions, and video recordings from five of the individual partnering sites discussing failure as a concept within their organization and programming. In this article, we demonstrate how the framings of failure by museum educators are bounded, and transformed, by un/seen external forces that ultimately impact the professional practices of educators in their organizations. We contend that the significance of this study lies in how perspectives around failure are produced and how they influence educators' professional practice, specifically in how failure is framed and communicated within STEAM-related learning opportunities in museum settings.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":10791,"journal":{"name":"Curator: The Museum Journal","volume":"68 3","pages":"473-483"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144647641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New media, new connections: Building Reddit's MuseumPros","authors":"Blaire Moskowitz,&nbsp;Scott Chamness","doi":"10.1111/cura.12658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12658","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Museum workers have been conducting informal professional discourse on the Web for decades. Today, Reddit's “MuseumPros” is one such place where twenty-eight thousand individuals discuss the lived experiences of museum workers and develop collective actions, compare experiences in the sector, and strengthen professional networks by voicing their opinions, asking questions, seeking guidance, and sharing skills. As creators and moderators of MuseumPros, we have led this community from its inception by participating, mediating, and creating resources for the community. Broadly, this paper is an auto-ethnographic review which enables us to reflect upon this community and the values we instilled and to understand its uniqueness through its anonymity, diversity of voices, and methods of knowledge construction.</p>","PeriodicalId":10791,"journal":{"name":"Curator: The Museum Journal","volume":"68 2","pages":"449-460"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144140509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Audio description for all? The benefits and concerns of extending access provision to sighted people","authors":"Ellen Adams","doi":"10.1111/cura.12659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12659","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Audio description (AD) is an established part of museums' access programs for blind and partially blind (BPB) people. This paper explores the merits and caveats regarding “AD for all”, rolling out the provision for sighted people as well. It draws from four separate Access All Senses (AAS) events in three different London museums, each conducted under slightly different conditions. In addition to collecting nearly 100 audience feedback forms, this study has involved museum access staff, audio describers, and BPB art lovers. These events demonstrate that there is a demand among sighted people to include AD in museum tours as “guided looking”. The main concern regards the unintended consequences that could threaten the specific provision that BPB people need. A brief survey at the end offers examples of museum initiatives where AD is being rolled out while protecting these interests.</p>","PeriodicalId":10791,"journal":{"name":"Curator: The Museum Journal","volume":"68 2","pages":"387-403"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cura.12659","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144140570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A museum of international standard in Patna, India: The predicament of loss and revival","authors":"Akash Bharadwaj","doi":"10.1111/cura.12660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12660","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay locates the creation of the Bihar Museum within the context of emerging international and transnational aspirations, especially in the post-liberalization era, and the regional space of Bihar and its political economy. It argues that this positioning, where the museum is supposed to cater to both the regional and the transnational, or the local and the global, presents opportunities as well as challenges. In other words, the state's branding of its identity through the museum creates what James Clifford called the predicament of culture: a chronotopic imagination that speaks of both loss and revival. The essay posits that the new Bihar Museum creates an anticipation of a grand Bihari identity that seems imminent but is never fully realized.</p>","PeriodicalId":10791,"journal":{"name":"Curator: The Museum Journal","volume":"68 2","pages":"461-467"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144140638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Finally, some hope. Communicating systemic aspects of climate-change mitigation","authors":"Jens Astrup,&nbsp;Zachary B. Massey,&nbsp;Yachao Li,&nbsp;Lucy Popova","doi":"10.1111/cura.12657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12657","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate communication, including from museums, often advocates individual lifestyle changes, and while these are necessary, the biggest emissions reductions will come from the systemic transition to renewable energy sources. The importance of this systemic change and its attainability has been under-communicated in the public discourse, although bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have increased their focus on it. We tested a message focusing on systemic aspects and actions that individuals can do to accelerate the renewable energy transition against a message advocating lifestyle change and a neutral message on the science of climate change. The neutral message elicited the highest levels of negative emotions, whereas the systemic message elicited higher levels of hope. These higher hope levels mediated increased behavioral intentions for doing the suggested system-aimed actions and for making lifestyle changes. Our results suggest that museums and climate communicators should prominently feature systemic aspects of climate change mitigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":10791,"journal":{"name":"Curator: The Museum Journal","volume":"68 2","pages":"357-386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cura.12657","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144140809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What do we mean by “agency”? A framework and tools for supporting visitors' agency in museums and science centers","authors":"Susan M. Letourneau,&nbsp;Dana Schloss,&nbsp;Sylvia Perez,&nbsp;Franklin Aucapina,&nbsp;Michael Baburyan,&nbsp;Kate Curto,&nbsp;Edwin Gomez,&nbsp;Truck McDonald,&nbsp;Satbir Multani,&nbsp;Trevor Taylor,&nbsp;Sam Tumolo,&nbsp;Laycca Umer","doi":"10.1111/cura.12655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12655","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Agency is a central value within museums and science centers, but it has not been defined and operationalized in ways that can guide museum practice or support inclusion for new audiences. In this project, an interdepartmental group of science center staff co-created a conceptual framework for noticing and supporting visitors' agency. The framework includes four interconnected aspects of agency: physical environment, social engagement, choice and autonomy, and relevance and empowerment. Conceptualizing agency as multifaceted led to more expansive approaches for supporting it, allowing staff to move beyond open-endedness to consider a wider range of supports and structures that can make museum experiences more inviting and inclusive. The framework informed the development of practical tools for use by exhibit/program developers and facilitators. Tools are freely available and guide museum staff in questioning current practices and integrating the four facets of agency into planning, prototyping, and observation of interactive experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":10791,"journal":{"name":"Curator: The Museum Journal","volume":"68 2","pages":"417-433"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cura.12655","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144140404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The concept map as a tool for analyzing museum objects","authors":"Maria Lucia de Niemeyer Matheus Loureiro","doi":"10.1111/cura.12656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12656","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper discusses using the concept map to study museum objects. The tool's original purpose, which was created in the 1970s by Joseph Novak, was to graphically represent the construction of knowledge of scientific topics by learners, particularly children. Concept maps start from the premise that new knowledge is always built on previous knowledge and allow the representation, organization, and relationship between concepts, which are seen as the primary elements of knowledge. Novak recognized that its potential is insufficiently explored and encouraged its application in different disciplines and fields that deal with concepts and their relationships. This incentive led the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) to adopt the concept map on an experimental basis to analyze objects in its collection. At first, the tool sought to emphasize the conceptual potential of museum objects and shed more light on their trajectory in time and space and the numerous possible connections with events, institutions, concepts, people, and other objects. In the initial experimental phase, the maps were included in papers presented at academic events and discussed with professionals dedicated to science and technology collections and other specialists in Museology and Information Science. In the second stage, maps began to be produced in greater numbers and on demand, focusing on objects selected for a temporary exhibition. Based on the assumption that museum objects are both unique and representative of a class of objects that share the same name and function, the maps constructed were based on Ingetraut Dahlberg's Theory of Concept, which distinguishes between general and individual objects and concepts.</p>","PeriodicalId":10791,"journal":{"name":"Curator: The Museum Journal","volume":"68 2","pages":"405-416"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144140392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A small, old, and slightly rough mirror: Encountering traumatic experiences in Nanjing Museum of the Site of Lijixiang Comfort Stations","authors":"Hongfang Sun,&nbsp;Guangjian Liu,&nbsp;Jianqiang Yan","doi":"10.1111/cura.12654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12654","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates how traumatic events are curated and narrated in the Nanjing Museum of the Site of Lijixiang Comfort Stations. Drawing on narrative therapy in museology, the paper offers a perspective for understanding and interpreting the narrative practice in public space. It follows the reconstruction of narrative structures through a variety of viewpoints, including spatial narratives, exhibition narratives, public engagement in response to traumatic memories, and the logical and emotional encounters in museums. Visitors' learning of traumatic experiences in the museum shows a kind of indissoluble connection, a type of empathetic mutual understanding, a kind of community engagement that contributed to the recovery, and a kind of responsibility to prevent such traumatic events from happening again.</p>","PeriodicalId":10791,"journal":{"name":"Curator: The Museum Journal","volume":"67 4","pages":"885-908"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142724241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The body remembers: Legacies of chattel slavery hauntings in South Africa and the United States","authors":"Bonita Bennett,&nbsp;Doris Ash","doi":"10.1111/cura.12650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12650","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As museum scholars and practitioners coming from quite different geographies and practicalities, we have chosen to focus on chattel slavery as an extreme form of incarceration in South Africa and the United States. In this essay we reflect on its legacies, referencing physical, psychological as well as cultural dimensions. We hold a mirror to power structures infected by commodification and violence as we examine the stories and tools of enslavement and refer particularly to the covert ways in which resistance was enacted. We bring a “sites of conscience” framework into the dialogue, believing that sites can be transformative tools for forging broader understandings both about what took place at these sites, and why it matters in the present. Our methods of engagement include mutual interviewing, based partially on autoethnographic reflection and, significantly, our own practices within museums and communities. Because of the organic nature of our dialogue, we present it as an essay rather than as a typical academic paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":10791,"journal":{"name":"Curator: The Museum Journal","volume":"67 4","pages":"757-791"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142737593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Incarceration: Museum research and practice","authors":"Theano Moussouri,&nbsp;Doris Ash,&nbsp;Bonita Bennett,&nbsp;Kenneth Cohen,&nbsp;Anna Leshchenko","doi":"10.1111/cura.12653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12653","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;This special issue considers how museums can take transformative action by interrogating and addressing issues of incarceration. The contributing authors argue that examining museum practice through the lens of incarceration can help reveal and even redress the structures and power dynamics that have generated visible and invisible types of oppressive and violent carcerality. This purpose builds on and extends the contributions museums have already made—and even have spurred—to advocate on a number of social and environmental issues, including social injustice and human rights violations. In some cases, this action has responded to societal change, while in other cases museums have taken a leadership role by anticipating needs and proposing new programs and policies. For example, certain museums have played key roles in crafting pathways for reconciliation with Indigenous communities through repatriation of artifacts, explicit recognition of human rights violations, and co-creation practices that center community voices to highlight previously silenced perspectives and worldviews. Of course, much of this work stands in contrast to—and in an effort to acknowledge—museums' colonial origins. This issue sets such an approach within a transitional justice context which aims to acknowledge, recognize, remember, and interpret acts, or periods, of human rights abuses, including genocide, displacement, disempowerment, and other types of violence and repression. To be sure, addressing these issues has been far from easy, for museum collections are steeped in colonial hierarchies of knowledge and Western epistemologies, and their operations are often funded to some significant extent by state authorities that are also responsible for carceral systems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This issue cannot claim to be the first to draw the field's attention to incarceration. Both popular and scholarly publications have generated growing awareness of museums' opportunity and ability to expose patterns of unjust incarceration, to question the very premise of carceral punishment, as well as to break down barriers and stereotypes that have long prevented formerly incarcerated individuals from equitably participating in society. Much of this work has taken the form of exhibitions and public programming, increasingly in collaboration with incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. The goals of such projects are typically to raise awareness among general visitors of the systemic injustices of carceral systems and to communicate the humanity of incarcerated populations so that they are less stigmatized. Several former sites of incarceration have led the way in this work (Kilmainham Jail in Dublin, Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, the National Justice Museum in Nottingham, UK, and Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, to name a few), though a wide range of art and history museums have followed in their footsteps and expanded the compass of ways the field can ad","PeriodicalId":10791,"journal":{"name":"Curator: The Museum Journal","volume":"67 4","pages":"753-756"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cura.12653","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142737464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}