ABSTRACT
Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design and management can help museum visitors learn about art and material culture. The book features a range of papers by leading academics, museum learning professionals, graduate researchers and curators from Europe, the USA and Canada.
The papers present diverse new research and practice in the field, and open up debate about the role, design and process of exhibition interpretation in museums, art galleries and historic sites. The authors represent both academics and practitioners, and are affiliated with high quality institutions of broad geographical scope. The result is a strong, consistent representation of current thinking across the theory, methodology and practice of interpretation design for learning in museums.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|39 pages
Situating Interpretation in the Museum Context
part II|43 pages
The Role of Interpretation in Art Galleries
part III|12 pages
Language and Museum Interpretation
part IV|44 pages
Interpretation, Personal Experience and Memory
chapter 11|15 pages
Narrative Museum, Museum of Voices
part V|26 pages
Evidence-Based Practice
chapter 13|12 pages
The Other Side of the Coin
part VI|41 pages
Interpretive Strategies for Specific Audiences
chapter 14|12 pages
Designing Effective Interpretation for Contemporary Family Visitors to Art Museums and Galleries
chapter 16|14 pages
Empower the Audience!
part VII|30 pages
Process and People