Visiting the Art Museum: A Journey Toward Participation is a book about the visitor experience. It is written as a companion for visitors to and inside the art museum. The volume engages readers in transforming a common experience, the museum visit, into a sophisticated epistemological inquiry. The study of the visitor experience through an epistemological approach consists of the untangling of the academic disciplines that study and inform each step of this experience: urban studies, architecture, design, art history, art education, and nonprofit management. This journey follows a transformative bottom-up trajectory from experiential to epistemological, and, finally, reveals itself as empowering. The book unfolds as an edited volume, with chapters by different authors who are enthusiastic scholars in each discipline and addresses undergraduate students as citizens, master’s students as professionals, and scholars as teachers and researchers. Each reader will discover a kaleidoscopic world made of ideas, values, and possibilities for participation.
Author(s): Eleonora Redaelli
Series: Sociology of the Arts
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 191
City: Cham
Preface and Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: The Visitor Experience and Disciplines: An Epistemological Journey
1 Introduction
2 The Visitor Experience
3 The Thought of the Practices
4 The Museum Visit as an Interdisciplinary Experience
5 The Visitor Experience and Academic Disciplines: An Epistemological Journey
6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 3: Cities and Urban Studies: Four Perspectives on Art Museums
1 Introduction
2 Museums as Bearers of Civic and Cultural Values
3 Museums as Anchors in Cultural Districts
4 Museums as Landmarks in the City Fabric
5 Flagship Museums in Urban Regeneration
6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: Buildings and Architecture: Typologies That Defy Definition
1 Introduction
2 The Evolving Typologies of Art Museums
3 Existing Structures as Art Museums
4 Newly Created Structures as Art Museums
5 Hybrid Structures as Art Museums
6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Exhibitions and Design: A Perspective on the Project of Museum Display
1 Introduction
2 Museography and Museum Studies: Two Perspectives on Display
3 Exhibition Design as an Aspect of Display
4 Exhibition Design as Artistic Practice
5 Exhibition Design as an Immersive Interface
6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 6: Artworks and Art History: Toward a Deeper Engagement with Art Exhibition and/as Art
1 Introduction
2 Art History and Its Approaches
3 A Statue of Peace as Physical Object and Visual Experience
4 FRP Peace as a Cultural Artifact
5 After “Freedom of Expression?” as an Artwork
6 Conclusions
Appendix: Glossary of East Asian Characters
References
Chapter 7: Programs and Art Education: Becoming Socially Responsive
1 Introduction
2 Early Art Education and Museum Programs in the United States
3 Evolving Theoretical Frameworks in Museums
4 Addressing Structural Inequalities Through Educational Programs
5 Socially Responsive Programs: The Columbus Museum of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts
6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 8: Participation and Nonprofit Management: Toward Inclusive Governance
1 Introduction
2 Museum and Participation
3 Managerialization of Museums
4 Nonprofit Governance
5 Inclusive Governance and Participation
6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 9: Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Postface: From Visitors to Users—COVID-19 Accelerating Change
1 A Bit of Autobiography
2 COVID-19 and the Brera Proposal
3 The Key to the Transformation: Offering a Museum Experience Online That Is Not Possible in Person
4 From Visitors to Users: From Tickets to Membership
5 Membership and the Board: Putting the Museum Back at the Heart of the Community
References
Index
