ABSTRACT
This book has provided a set of frameworks for understanding communication, via language, and via resources of design and display, which enable processes of meaning-making in museum texts to be more fully understood. Museum texts have been interpreted both in terms of texts in museums, especially its written texts, and in terms of museums as texts, through the ways in which diverse resources are integrated at the level of the exhibition and the institution. Communication has been explained as a socially contextualised, semiotic resource, that is, one which actively constructs meanings, rather than passively transmitting them. The frameworks provided are those of organisational, interactional and representational meanings – different facets of communication, each related to particular issues of social context, and invoking their own particular communicative resources.
