Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2023.2269135
Julie Lejsgaard Christensen
ABSTRACTFor years, critical museology has called for museums to question and revise their narratives and praxes. Current societal discourses on representation and inclusion in cultural heritage has made this even more important. The paper argues that such revisions involve specific challenges for collectors’ museums where narratives of foundation and the founder are pivotal for institutional self-perception. Despite the relevance of critical museology’s institutional critique, the paper argues that the critique overlooks one important aspect: that change of praxis requires an understanding of how and why certain narratives become embedded in museums’ self-perception. Integrating organizational theory, psychology, and sociology with critical museology, the paper offers a new interdisciplinary perspective on the organizational mechanisms that undergird institutional conventions, canons, and embedded narratives in collectors’ museums. Finally, the paper advances the concept of resonance as a path to working constructively with tensions between museums’ historical narratives and contemporary societal issues and worldviews.KEYWORDS: Collectors’ museumscritical museologyorganizational identitynarrative identity Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by The New Carlsberg Foundation.Notes on contributorsJulie Lejsgaard ChristensenJulie Lejsgaard Christensen is a curator and a Ph.D. Fellow at the New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, and Aarhus University, Aarhus. She works with museum education, dissemination, and the relation between museums and contemporary society.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2023.2269129
Tanja Komarac, Đurđana Ozretić Došen
ABSTRACTThis paper aims to provide new insight into creating authentic Web-based virtual museum experiences by exploring positive and negative elements of the experiences of Web-based virtual museum visits performed by young (Generation Z) visitors. The Qualitative Diary Research (QDR) method was applied, encompassing 107 visits of web-based virtual museums from different countries. Results reveal that the visitors’ orientation and moving, the technology used in virtual museums, and virtual exhibition and artefacts represent crucial factors for satisfaction. Time flexibility and lack of cost contribute to a better virtual museum experience. The absence of people in virtual museums and the lack of services such as museum e-shops and entertainment were found to be harmful elements in contributing to the better virtual museum experience. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper that offers insights into Generation Z experiences of different Web-based virtual museums.KEYWORDS: Virtual museumsyoung visitorsgeneration Zqualitative researchresearch diariesvirtual exhibition Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsTanja KomaracTanja Komarac, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department of the Faculty of Economics & Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include arts marketing and management, experiential marketing, and mobile marketing in arts and culture. She has published papers in Current Issues in Tourism, International Journal of Arts Management, Museum Management and Curatorship, and other journals. Also, she has collaborated with museum professionals on successful museum projects such as the exhibition ‘The Sixties in Croatia: Myth and Reality’ with the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, ‘Museum shop student experience’ with the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, and other museums.Đurđana Ozretić DošenĐurđana Ozretić Došen, Ph.D., is a full professor in the Marketing Department of the Faculty of Economics & Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include services marketing, brand management, and international marketing. She has published books, contributions to books, journal articles (e.g., in Current Issues in Tourism, Journal of Business Research, European Management Journal, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, International Journal of Arts Management, etc.), and conference proceedings. She frequently collaborates in projects to popularise science with different public and private institutions, including museums (Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2023.2269184
Nanna Holdgaard, Anne Rørbæk Olesen
ABSTRACTThis article presents a quantitative scoping review of play in museums, focusing on when, where, and how play has been applied and researched. The findings indicate that the attention to play in museum settings is a relatively recent and growing tendency. Additionally, the review reveals a notable Western bias, with a significant concentration of studies originating from the United States, primarily in the context of children’s museums. Interestingly, the majority of studies on play in museums have been published outside the broader museum studies field. Furthermore, nearly half of the reviewed studies do not treat play as a central and defined concept and only 35% of the studies investigate play empirically as a central and defined concept. Based on our findings, we call for more research published within the field of museum studies as well as encourage further empirical investigations where play is a central and defined concept.KEYWORDS: Playmuseumexhibitionscoping reviewquantitative methodmuseum studies Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The following journals identified by East (Citation2008) were included: Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archive Professionals, Conservator, Curator: The Museum Journal, Exhibitionist/Exhibition, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Journal of Cultural Heritage, Journal of Heritage Tourism, Journal of Museum Education, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Journal of the History of Collection, Museum and Society, Museum Anthropology, Museum International, Museum Management and Curatorship, Museums and Social Issues, Studies in Conservation and Visitor Studies.2 Three studies were not retrievable, namely Dyson (Citation2021), Fullenkamp (Citation2021), and Lucas, McManus, and Thomas (Citation1986).3 https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/youth.4 Four studies mentioning both children and young people were categorized as young people, since they were considered to be most relevant for this category: Chayder (Citation2019), Kanhadilok and Watts (Citation2017), Laine et al. (Citation2009) and Chang, Chang, and Heh (Citation2015). Additional informationNotes on contributorsNanna HoldgaardNanna Holdgaard is a senior researcher at the National Museum of Denmark whose practice-based and cross-disciplinary work encompasses audience research, participatory design, and digital media. In her research, she examines the intricate dynamics and interplay between audiences, cultural institutions, and cultural policies.Anne Rørbæk OlesenAnne Rørbæk Olesen earned her PhD in Communication from Roskilde University in 2015 with the thesis Co-designing Digital Museum Communication. She has co-authored publications in internationally renowned anthologies and journals, such as The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication, Museum Management and Curatorship, and Museum & Society. Her research focuses on museums, communication, design, and
摘要本文对博物馆中的游戏进行了定量分析，重点讨论了游戏在何时、何地以及如何被应用和研究。研究结果表明，在博物馆设置的关注是一个相对较新的和不断增长的趋势。此外，该审查还揭示了一种明显的西方偏见，主要是在儿童博物馆的背景下，主要集中了来自美国的研究。有趣的是，大多数关于博物馆玩耍的研究都是在更广泛的博物馆研究领域之外发表的。此外，近一半的研究并未将游戏视为核心和定义概念，只有35%的研究将游戏作为核心和定义概念进行实证研究。基于我们的发现，我们呼吁在博物馆研究领域发表更多的研究，并鼓励进一步的实证调查，其中游戏是一个核心和明确的概念。关键词:游戏博物馆展览范围审查定量方法博物馆研究披露声明作者未报告潜在利益冲突。注1 East (Citation2008)确定的以下期刊包括:《收藏:博物馆和档案专业人员、管理员、策展人期刊》;《博物馆杂志》、《展览主义/展览》、《国际遗产研究杂志》、《文化遗产杂志》、《遗产旅游杂志》、《博物馆教育杂志》、《美国文物保护学会杂志》、《收藏史杂志》、《博物馆与社会》、《博物馆人类学》、《国际博物馆》、《博物馆管理与策展学》、《博物馆与社会问题》、《文物保护研究》和《游客研究》。即戴森(Citation2021)、富勒坎普(Citation2021)和卢卡斯、麦克马纳斯和托马斯(Citation1986)。3 https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/youth.4提到儿童和年轻人的四项研究被归类为年轻人，因为它们被认为与这一类别最相关:Chayder (Citation2019)， Kanhadilok和Watts (Citation2017)， Laine等人(Citation2009)和Chang, Chang, and Heh (Citation2015)。作者简介:anna Holdgaard是丹麦国家博物馆的高级研究员，她的研究以实践为基础，跨学科，包括受众研究、参与式设计和数字媒体。在她的研究中，她考察了受众、文化机构和文化政策之间复杂的动态和相互作用。Anne Rørbæk Olesen于2015年在罗斯基勒大学获得传播学博士学位，论文为“协同设计数字博物馆传播”。她在国际知名文集和期刊上发表过著作，如《劳特利奇博物馆手册》、《媒体与传播》、《博物馆管理与策展》和《博物馆与社会》。她的研究重点是博物馆、传播、设计和合作。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2023.2269145
Nicola Wallis, Kate Noble
Museums are increasingly considering civic responsibilities towards the communities of which they are a part. In this study, a group of families with children aged between two and four years visited a university art museum for multiple facilitated sessions within a participatory research project. Drawing on previous work on caring museum practices, this article explores the potential of museums to support young families through key affordances: time, connection, and exploration. We demonstrate how, by offering opportunities to slow down, build relationships, and take risks, the museum can become a nurturing space of care and connectedness. We contrast this care-centred approach with the pressure exerted on both the museum and early years sectors of target-setting approaches with easily measurable outcomes demanding a singular focus on rapid linear progress. The analysis presented here resists this model, offering instead an approach rooted in gentle attention and openness.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-14DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2023.2269132
Thalassia Giaccone
ABSTRACTThe temporary exhibition ‘Sharks of the Mediterranean sea’ features scientific and artistic collections. Priority focus is the knowledge of the biodiversity of the selachians of the Mediterranean sea and the Gulf of Naples (Italy), through a museum itinerary that illustrates their biology, ecology, vulnerability, protection, and scientific research. The aim here is to describe the scientific communication strategies used to inform/educate the public but above all to promote a reflection that stimulates the latter to be a protagonist of a concrete action of care and custody of the selachians through a paradigm shift of the person-sea and person-shark relationship. The result is an exhibition set up in the graphic/photographic, videographic, and scenographic/museographic aspects, focusing on the visitor’s experience, his or her psychology, emotional and aesthetic relationships with the museum spaces as well as the solicitations of curiosity triggered by the interaction with the collections.KEYWORDS: SharksMediterranean Seaexhibitionscientific communicationmuseum AcknowledgementsI thank Prof. Ferdinando Boero, Prof. Roberto Danovaro and Dr. Claudia Gili for reviewing the scientific content of the exhibition, colleagues Dr. Elisa Cenci, Dr. Marco Signore, Dr. Andrea Travaglini, Dr. Maria Cristina Vigo Majello for collaboration on scientific design, text writing, and exhibit design, Dr. Ester Vollono for graphic design, Dr. Anna Maria Miglietta and the Museum of Marine Biology ‘Pietro Parenzan’ for the loan of the skin of Cetorhinus maximus, the underwater photographers and video-operators Rocco Cannella, Riccardo Cingillo, Emilio Mancuso, Alessandro Pagano, Domenico Roscigno, Chiara Soldati and Marco Spinelli for underwater images and filming, the scientific illustrators Marc Dando and Alberto Gennari, the Dohrn Foundation and finally dr. Massimiliano Bottaro for the contribution of Project Elife (Elasmobranchs Low-impact Fishing Experience) LIFE18 NAT/IT/000846.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsThalassia GiacconeThalassia Giaccone is a technologist at the Marine Animal Conservation and Public Engagement Department in Naples (Zoological Station Anton Dohrn, Darwin-Dohrn Museum). She received the Ph.D. degree in Environmental Sciences: Marine Environment and Resources at the University of Messina. She works on scientific communication, exhibition, and museum activities but also on marine bioconstructions with calcareous algae and free-living calcareous algae of the photic and mesophotic zone.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2023.2263847
Jason Gibson, Iain G. Johnston, Michael Cawthorn
ABSTRACTThis paper explores the challenges of repatriating poorly documented Aboriginal sacred religious objects from Central Australia. The authors present an overview of historical endeavours to repatriate these objects from Australian domestic museums and the progress of recent returns from international collections. Detailed documentation, including reference to an object’s specific relationship to places, people or ancestral stories is critical to ensuring that rightful contemporary Central Australian Aboriginal people can assume care and responsibility for any repatriated objects. The absence of provenance data and any other related collection documentation can therefore greatly inhibit the return of these objects to present-day custodians. Exploring the prospect of returning large numbers of poorly provenanced sacred objects back to Australia, this paper argues that aside from the potential logistical or infrastructure requirements of repatriating these items, the development of Indigenous cultural frameworks and innovations will be critical to any meaningful repatriation outcomes.KEYWORDS: Repatriation, religious items, Aboriginal heritage, museum ethnography, Indigenous cultural heritage Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 In this paper, the authors use tywerrenge to describe the specific sacred items following Henderson and Dobson (Citation2020, 334); other spellings are only used when pertinent to the discussion. These items are typically sacred stones and boards inscribed with motifs associated with particular Dreaming Beings and localities and are a key element in the ritual paraphernalia of Central Australia. The term also encompasses ritual designs and dances (Strehlow Citation1997,14–18, 84)..2 This section has been informed further via pers. comm with Ross Chadwick at the Western Australian Museum and Indigenous consultant Peter White, both on October 1st 2021.3 Research of women’s restricted material was not undertaken by the male authors of this paper but by women at AIATSIS.4 Peter White, pers. comm. October 1st 2021.5 Ross Chadwick, pers. Comm. October 1st 2021.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Australian Research Council [Grant Number DE220100206].Notes on contributorsJason GibsonDr Jason M. Gibson is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in cultural heritage and museum studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. He has worked extensively with Aboriginal custodians throughout Australia on history, museum, and heritage-related projects and has conducted collaborative ethnographic fieldwork in Central Australia for the past two decades. His books include Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection (SUNY Press, 2020) and Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage Experiences of Return in Central Australia (Routledge 2024).Iain G. JohnstonDr Iain G. Johnston is a Senior Researcher in the Return of Cultural Heritage
摘要本文探讨了从澳大利亚中部归还文献贫乏的土著神圣宗教物品所面临的挑战。作者概述了从澳大利亚国内博物馆归还这些物品的历史努力以及最近从国际收藏中归还的进展。详细的文件记录，包括物品与地点、人或祖先故事的具体关系，对于确保合法的当代中澳大利亚原住民能够承担任何遣返物品的照顾和责任至关重要。因此，缺乏来源数据和任何其他相关的收集文件可能会极大地阻碍这些物品归还给现在的保管人。探讨将大量来历不明的圣物送回澳大利亚的前景，本文认为，除了遣返这些物品的潜在后勤或基础设施要求外，土著文化框架和创新的发展对任何有意义的遣返结果都至关重要。关键词:遣返、宗教物品、原住民遗产、博物馆人种学、原住民文化遗产披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1在本文中，作者在Henderson和Dobson (Citation2020, 334)之后使用tywerrenge来描述具体的神圣物品;其他拼写只在与讨论相关时使用。这些物品通常是神圣的石头和木板，上面刻有与特定的做梦者和地点相关的图案，是澳大利亚中部仪式用具的关键元素。这个词也包括仪式设计和舞蹈(Strehlow citation1997,14 - 18,84)本部分已通过pers进一步通知。2013年10月1日，我与西澳大利亚博物馆的罗斯·查德威克(Ross Chadwick)和土著顾问彼得·怀特(Peter White)进行了交流。1.3女性受限材料的研究不是由本文的男性作者进行的，而是由aiatsis的女性进行的。Ross Chadwick, pers。2021年10月1日。本研究由澳大利亚研究委员会(Australian Research Council)资助[资助号:DE220100206]。作者简介Jason M. Gibson博士是澳大利亚墨尔本迪肯大学文化遗产和博物馆研究高级研究员和讲师。在过去的二十年里，他与澳大利亚各地的土著监护人在历史、博物馆和遗产相关项目上进行了广泛的合作，并在澳大利亚中部进行了合作的民族志田野调查。他的著作包括《仪式人:制作人种学和斯特罗收藏的回归》(纽约州立大学出版社，2020年)和《澳大利亚中部土著文化遗产的回归经验》(劳特利奇出版社，2024年)。Iain G. Johnston博士是澳大利亚堪培拉澳大利亚土著和托雷斯海峡岛民研究所(AIATSIS)文化遗产归还(RoCH)项目的高级研究员。十多年来，他与澳大利亚北部的土著社区广泛合作，共同探索岩石艺术、肖像学、物质文化和口述历史。自2019年以来，他与澳大利亚各地的社区合作，将海外收藏机构的重要文化材料送回本国的保存地点，首先是文化遗产归还范围项目(2018-2020)，现在是RoCH计划(2020-2024)。Michael Cawthorn是墨尔本迪肯大学的副研究员。在过去的二十年里，他一直与澳大利亚中部的土著人一起从事文化遗产材料的遣返工作。迈克尔曾任北领地博物馆和美术馆(MAGNT)副馆长，负责管理博物馆的土著遣返计划。从2012年起，他在文化材料和祖先遗骸的遣返、土著头衔、文化地图绘制和遗址保护等领域担任人类学家顾问。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2023.2253024
Carol E. Mayer
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsCarol E. MayerDr. Carol Mayer served as head of the curatorial department at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, with particular responsibility for the Pacific and African collections, and the European and Canadian ceramics collections. Her regional interests include Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Fiji, New Zealand and British Columbia. Since retirement in 2022, Dr. Mayer has explored her Pacific and Ceramics research interests as a Research Fellow with the Museum of Anthropology.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2023.2243099
James M. Bradburne
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Pub Date : 2023-08-09DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2023.2235683
L. Calvi, A. Vermeeren
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2023.2235687
Laura Clark
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