ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the architectural threshold has become a significant concept for curators and for museum studies, as digital technologies shape the interaction between visitors and exhibitions. It also explores how Instagram can enable the making of meaning through new interfaces at the threshold. The chapter looks at how visitors to the museum have used Instagram to document their visits, and discusses the implications of these practices for the digital threshold and for the connected museum more broadly. It aims to draw together some of the discourses that link architectural thresholds to museum communication by exploring notions of liminality, connectedness and transparency. The chapter suggests that software and digital cultures shape the interaction between visitors and museum objects, and that this interaction can be conceptualised as an emergent threshold. It provides a report on a study of visitor engagement with the exhibitions held in the Nicholson Museum, which is part of the Chau Chak Wing Museum at Sydney University.
