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oapen-20.500.12657-771882023-11-15T09:17:26Z The Museum as Experience Shifrin, Susan interactive museum; experiential museum; inclusive museum; participatory museum; museums and community; visitors; stakeholders; diversity; accessibility; education bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WT Travel & holiday::WTH Travel & holiday guides::WTHM Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides Museums have long been viewed as exclusive, excluding, and as antiseptic to intimacy. In the past few decades, however, humanized experiences—cultivated by curators, educators, artists, activists, and marketers alike—have emerged as the reason for being for these cornerstones of community. Such experiences are often possible only in museum settings, where cultural exploration, probing conversation, and safe risk-taking can occur in spaces now becoming sacred through inclusiveness. This book brings together an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the kinds of human experiences and interactions that have converted the once-sterile museum into a space of enlivenment and enrichment, as well as physical and emotional well-being. The essays focus for the first time on the uniquely human and humanizing experiences to be found in the collections, programs, exhibitions, and spaces of today’s museums. 2023-11-02T11:08:04Z 2023-11-02T11:08:04Z 2023 book 9781641893718 9781802701487 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77188 eng Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781802701470.pdf www.arc-humanities.org Arc Humanities Press 10.17302/CDH-9781802701470 10.17302/CDH-9781802701470 e8579ecb-7a9a-49c1-9777-413adf1559c9 9781641893718 9781802701487 184 open access
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Museums have long been viewed as exclusive, excluding, and as antiseptic to intimacy. In the past few decades, however, humanized experiences—cultivated by curators, educators, artists, activists, and marketers alike—have emerged as the reason for being for these cornerstones of community. Such experiences are often possible only in museum settings, where cultural exploration, probing conversation, and safe risk-taking can occur in spaces now becoming sacred through inclusiveness.
This book brings together an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the kinds of human experiences and interactions that have converted the once-sterile museum into a space of enlivenment and enrichment, as well as physical and emotional well-being. The essays focus for the first time on the uniquely human and humanizing experiences to be found in the collections, programs, exhibitions, and spaces of today’s museums.
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