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      Museum Thresholds book

      The Design and Media of Arrival

      Museum Thresholds

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      Museum Thresholds book

      The Design and Media of Arrival
      Edited ByRoss Parry, Ruth Page, Alex Moseley
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 16 May 2018
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315627793
      Pages 280
      eBook ISBN 9781315627793
      Subjects Built Environment, Humanities, Museum and Heritage Studies
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      Parry, R., Page, R., & Moseley, A. (Eds.). (2018). Museum Thresholds: The Design and Media of Arrival (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315627793

      ABSTRACT

      Museum Thresholds is a progressive, interdisciplinary volume and the first to explore the importance and potential of entrance spaces for visitor experience. Bringing together an international collection of writers from different disciplines, the chapters in this volume offer different theoretical perspectives on the nature of engagement, interaction and immersion in threshold spaces, and the factors which enable and inhibit those immersive possibilities.

      Organised into themed sections, the book explores museum thresholds from three different perspectives. Considering them first as a problem space, the contributors then go on to explore thresholds through different media and, finally, draw upon other subjects and professions, including performance, gaming, retail and discourse studies, in order to examine them from an entirely new perspective. Drawing upon examples that span Asia, North America and Europe, the authors set the entrance space in its historical, social and architectural contexts. Together, the essays show how the challenges posed by the threshold can be rethought and reimagined from a variety of perspectives, each of which have much to bring to future thinking and design.

      Combining both theory and practice, Museum Thresholds should be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in museum studies, digital heritage, architecture, design studies, retail studies and media studies. It will also be of great interest to museum practitioners working in a wide variety of institutions around the globe.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|9 pages

      On a new threshold

      ByRoss Parry, Ruth Page, Alex Moseley

      part I|67 pages

      Locating and defining the threshold

      chapter 2|20 pages

      Hysterical atria

      ByKatherine Skellon, Ben Tunstall

      chapter 3|21 pages

      The complexity of welcome

      Visitor experience at the museum threshold
      ByColin Mulberg

      chapter |4 pages

      Conversation 1

      The Royal Air Force Museum London
      ByColin Mulberg

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Design-driven innovation for museum entrances

      ByMarco Mason

      part II|93 pages

      Affordances and potential of the threshold

      chapter 5|26 pages

      Suspended

      Art in the threshold
      ByPeter Ride

      chapter 6|12 pages

      Curation at the threshold

      Making museum meanings through new interfaces
      ByAngelina Russo, Philip Pond

      chapter |5 pages

      Conversation 2

      Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
      ByAngelina Russo, Philip Pond

      chapter 7|29 pages

      Using 3D visualisation technology to improve design and visitor orientation

      ByDavid Burden

      chapter 8|19 pages

      Difficult thresholds

      Negotiating shared and embedded entrances
      BySteven Kruse

      part III|81 pages

      The threshold rethought

      chapter 9|14 pages

      Games in the lobby

      A playful approach
      ByErik Kristiansen, Alex Moseley

      chapter |3 pages

      Conversation 3

      The British Postal Museum and Archive
      ByErik Kristiansen, Alex Moseley

      chapter 10|19 pages

      Retail perspectives on the threshold

      ByTracy Harwood

      chapter 11|17 pages

      Setting the tone for the visit

      Soundscape design
      ByChristian Hviid Mortensen, Angus Deuchars

      chapter |3 pages

      Conversation 4

      The Royal Shakespeare Company
      ByChristian Hviid Mortensen, Angus Deuchars

      chapter 12|23 pages

      The visitor as evaluator

      Using appraisal theory to understand ‘threshold fear’
      ByRuth Page
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