{"title":"Research on the welcoming experience of the museum's arrival space","authors":"Sifan Guo, Xuesen Zheng","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2132994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2132994","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many public places, including museums, which have experienced unprecedented situations, such as lockdowns and reopening with physical distancing requirements. Therefore, physical museums' welcoming experience for visitors warrants greater research attention today. The entrance gate, foyer, and surroundings are areas that people must touch and pass through to enter the museum. To increase museums' popularity and attract people from the very start of their visit, museum authorities must consider the appearance and the environment of the space where people first arrive when entering the museum. Therefore, this study proposes the arrival space as a new concept to examine how to create a welcoming arrival space in museums. By analyzing the Hintze and Earth Halls in London's Natural History Museum, the design principles of a museum's welcoming experience are described from a space design perspective as a reference for future museum development.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48139546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The affective turn in museums and the rise of affective curatorship","authors":"Marzia Varutti","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2132993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2132993","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the affective turn in museums: what does it mean for museum theory and practice? How can we theorize its effects? In order to address these questions, the article develops the concept of ‘affective curatorship’, denoting curatorial approaches specifically aimed to affect visitors emotionally. Drawing on recent museological literature and exhibition projects in Europe and North America, the article exemplifies the qualities of affective curatorship and examines how emotions can be leveraged in curatorial practice in connection with the exhibition theme, activities, design, and the senses. The main finding is that affective curatorship is subtly transforming curatorial practice and, through that, the way we think and feel about museums. As a curatorial, theoretical and analytical perspective, affect offers crucial insights into the new roles that museums can play in increasingly emotionally demanding times.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"61 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43403459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current use cases, benefits and challenges of NFTs in the museum sector: toward common pool model of NFT sharing for educational purposes","authors":"Yuha Jung","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2132995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2132995","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT NFTs, non-fungible tokens, can represent ownership of unique things based on a relatively new technology of blockchain (ethereum.org). Because of this mechanism, people use NFTs to sell, share and transfer various rights of digital media or tangible objects. Generally, museums, which tend to be risk-averse, are slow to examine or utilize NFTs. This paper discusses the current use cases of NFTs in the museum sector addressing both benefits and challenges that come with museum NFT use to answer how NFTs can be better utilized in the future. Despite a number of challenges, NFTs are untapped resources that could have a wider application for museums. Using the theory of the commons, this paper further develops a model for a common pool of NFT sharing based on the fair use doctrine of copyright and open access model among global museums that are willing to participate, where they can share their NFT collections digitally.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"451 - 467"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44078356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘We want to know more than that’: lessons learnt from the public workshop on collections data at the V&A","authors":"Juhee Park","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2111331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2111331","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study challenges institutionalised collection and documentation practices at museums, providing a space for the reconfiguration of concepts and boundaries of collections data with respect to digital objects in particular. While various technology-driven approaches have been introduced for the management of collections data, little attention has been given to the nature of collections data and how museums can gather them to improve plurality. As part of the experimental project titled Content/Data/Object at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, this research analyses the public workshop wherein participants discussed a digital object at the museum (i.e., Minecraft) as a case study and proposes a conceptual framework with expanded concepts of collections data and possible documentation methods. It provides museums with a dynamic model to diversify collections data that is able to reflect the various needs of the public and allow the interpretation of our heritage to flourish.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"141 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41446501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing mobile museum experiences for teenagers","authors":"Vanessa Cesário, Valentina Nisi","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2111329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2111329","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While museums are often designed to engage and interest a wide variety of audiences, teenagers are a neglected segment. This article describes a set of findings that aids in designing enjoyable interactive experiences inside natural history museums for teenagers (15–19 years old). For this research, 223 teenagers have been involved through co-design sessions and testing of Augmented Reality prototypes (130 of these teenagers took part in a focus group as well). This work also involved 3 museums from Portugal, 12 cultural heritage professionals, and 17 master's students as sources of information who took part in different research studies. Through qualitative analysis, the findings from the studies provide a strong foundation to inform and inspire work within the emerging research field concerning museum offerings and the current teenage generation.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"272 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43003662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos de las Heras-Pedrosa, Patricia P. Iglesias-Sánchez, Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado, P. López-Delgado, Emelina Galarza-Fernández
{"title":"Museum communication management in digital ecosystems. Impact of COVID-19 on digital strategy","authors":"Carlos de las Heras-Pedrosa, Patricia P. Iglesias-Sánchez, Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado, P. López-Delgado, Emelina Galarza-Fernández","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2111335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2111335","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected the world's cultural institutions, as well as driving digitization and a change in the relationships with their audiences. This study explores how the most visited art-museums in Spain have reacted through their social networks to the pandemic. Two key moments, the confinement and a period one-year after the declaration of the health crisis are compared. A mixed method by combining a content analysis of 2392 publications on Twitter and Instagram and two regression models evidence that COVID-19 has been a turning point in the management of museum communication in digital ecosystems. The main findings highlight the importance of active listening and the ability of these channels to create experiences beyond the physical visit. The strategic value of its implementation is underlined. Practical implications are included and it emphasized the role of entertainment and social support of the museums in crisis situations.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"548 - 570"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47341824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating parent attitudes from the perspective of learning experiences in a museum","authors":"Sıla Bayındır, Eylem Gökçe Cengiz","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2111328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2111328","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Museums are important locations providing cognitive resources to children in various subjects. Literature suggests that parent–child interaction in the museum differs across cultures. Two of the main reasons for this are the overall attitude towards the child and the autonomy provided. The data reveals that the most decisive factor was parents’ attitudes towards the autonomy of the child. Research primarily focuses on the structure of parent–child interaction in Turkey in the context of museums, and how often scaffolding strategies are used by parents. It also examines how using these strategies differ in terms of parental attitudes toward children and their caretakers as well as their own individual children. The person selecting the object to talk about (mother-father–child) during the interaction process was accepted as an indicator of autonomy support, and how the scaffolding strategies differed correspondingly was investigated. Parents mostly used strategies of mobilization/maintenance and detailed explanation.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"254 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43843439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intangible Cultural Heritage and Participation: Encounters with Safeguarding Practices","authors":"Meghann E. Jack","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2102755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2102755","url":null,"abstract":"participation of communities in the safeguarding of their own cultural heritage is a de fi ning feature of UNESCO s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, separating it from earlier heritage doctrine that emphasizes the authority of heritage experts in conservation planning. Participatory safeguarding practices are central to UNESCO ’ s suite of ICH training and capacity-building resources, including the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices , Ethical Principles for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (2015), and the Operational Directives for the implementation of the 2003 Convention (2018). But respect and involvement of stakeholder communities, groups, and individuals in decision-making processes and in the safeguarding cycle of documentation, recognition, and transmission happens in di ff erent ways in di ff erent contexts, and with varying outcomes. There is a clear need to critically analyze ‘ the participatory turn ’ and how community-led safeguarding happens on the ground as recommendations for best practice are interpreted and implemented by diverse actors. Alivizatou ’ s Intangible Heritage and Participation: Encounters with Safeguarding is of literature (see also that evaluates the opportunities and limit-ations of UNESCO ’ s participatory paradigm across a diversity of safeguarding case studies. Alivizatou is best known for her examinations of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in relation to museum perspectives and practices, and Intangible Heritage and Participation understand-ably adopts a largely museological lens in its analysis of participatory approaches to ICH safeguarding. Positioning museums as key sites for community-led projects, the book draws on museum-related case studies of safeguarding interventions in the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand, Greece, Peru, Denmark, Sweden, and Japan.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"37 1","pages":"561 - 563"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48574280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandre Schwob, Ronan de Kervenoael, V. Kirova, Yan San Sim
{"title":"Understanding and harnessing the potential of front-line employees’ self-governance in technologised museums and theme parks: insights from a qualitative study","authors":"Alexandre Schwob, Ronan de Kervenoael, V. Kirova, Yan San Sim","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2111334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2111334","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45554455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Limitations and ethical reflection on the application of big data in museum visitor research","authors":"Zhang Jingwen, L. Lin","doi":"10.1080/09647775.2022.2111333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2022.2111333","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the past two decades, big data has been gradually introduced into visitor research of museums globally. However, there are technical limitations in data collection, such as sample deviation and data quality in data collection, and data analysis limitations, such as weakening causality and inaccurate judgement of human emotions. This has also raised many ethical issues, such as human subjectivity, privacy, and social justice in applying big data in museum visitor research. Thus, it is imperative to clarify the application scope of big data and formulate ethical regulations to promote the development of extensive data research methods for museum visitors.","PeriodicalId":46506,"journal":{"name":"Museum Management and Curatorship","volume":"38 1","pages":"416 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47702840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}