The study of the museum visitor has undergone radical transformation. Each author here has asked unfamiliar questions and responded with fresh answers. Some of these questions involve the visitor's identity, what she brings to her museum experience. Can we gain entry into this experience? Does more technology really increase access to the objects themselves? Others probe the very nature of museum going and exhibition making, demanding that we reexamine the traditional exhibition to reposition the visitor and her meaning-making at the centre. The volume provokes imaginative research and encourages new conclusions.

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Cover Visiting the Visitor
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Introduction. Visiting the Visitor
Affect-based Exhibition
Individual Identity/Collective History. Personalizing Essence in the Museum
Describing and Understanding the Experience of Visitors
Viewing the Museum Experience through an Identity Lens
Empowering the Visitors. Process and Problems
Here Comes Everybody! The Visitor Business in Museums in Light of Existential Philosophy
Experiencing Dialogue. Behind the Cur tains of Museum Performance
Social Representation Theory and Museum Visitors
A Visitor-Centered Approach. Enhancing Museology with Perceptual Theory
Reflections on Michail Bakhtin’s Dialogue versus the Theory of Mirror Neurons
Who do you Think they are? Museum Visitor Studies in Russia with a Historical Perspective
Acknowledged and Empowered Visitors in Socialist Croatia. Diachronic Exploration
Following Visitors’ Comments in Disigning a Museum Refurbishment. Identity and Authentity
From Real Thing to Real Experience. Rethinking the Museum Experience
Museums and Visitors. Giving the Lions Powers to the Gazelle
Authors’ Biographies

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