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The Multisensory Museum
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space
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eBook - PDF
The Multisensory Museum
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space
About this book
Recent research in the cognitive sciences gives us a new perspective on the cognitive and sensory landscape.
In The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, museum expert Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School bring together scholars and museum practitioners from around the world to highlight new trends and untapped opportunities for using such modalities as scent, sound, and touch in museums to offer more immersive experiences and diverse sensory engagement for visually- and otherwise-impaired patrons. Visitor studies describe how different personal and group identities color our cultural consumption and might serve as a compass on museum journeys. Psychologists and educators look at the creation of memories through different types of sensory engagement with objects, and how these memories in turn affect our next cultural experience. An anthropological perspective on the history of our multisensory engagement with ritual and art objects, especially in cultures that did not privilege sight over other senses, allows us a glimpse of what museums might become in the future. Education researchers discover museums as unique educational playgrounds that allow for a variety of learning styles, active and passive exploration, and participatory learning. Designers and architects suggest a framework for thinking about design solutions for a museum environment that invites an intuitive, multisensory and flexible exploration, as well as minimizes physical hurdles.
While attention has been paid to accessibility for the physically-impaired since passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, making buildings accessible is only the first small step in elevating museums to be centers of learning and culture for all members of their communities. This landmark book will help all museums go much further.
In The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, museum expert Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School bring together scholars and museum practitioners from around the world to highlight new trends and untapped opportunities for using such modalities as scent, sound, and touch in museums to offer more immersive experiences and diverse sensory engagement for visually- and otherwise-impaired patrons. Visitor studies describe how different personal and group identities color our cultural consumption and might serve as a compass on museum journeys. Psychologists and educators look at the creation of memories through different types of sensory engagement with objects, and how these memories in turn affect our next cultural experience. An anthropological perspective on the history of our multisensory engagement with ritual and art objects, especially in cultures that did not privilege sight over other senses, allows us a glimpse of what museums might become in the future. Education researchers discover museums as unique educational playgrounds that allow for a variety of learning styles, active and passive exploration, and participatory learning. Designers and architects suggest a framework for thinking about design solutions for a museum environment that invites an intuitive, multisensory and flexible exploration, as well as minimizes physical hurdles.
While attention has been paid to accessibility for the physically-impaired since passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, making buildings accessible is only the first small step in elevating museums to be centers of learning and culture for all members of their communities. This landmark book will help all museums go much further.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. MUSEUMS AND TOUCH
- Chapter 1. Please DO Touch the Exhibits! Interactions between Visual Imagery and Haptic Perception
- Chapter 2. “First Hand,” Not “First Eye” Knowledge: Bodily Experience in Museums
- Chapter 3. Art Making as Multisensory Engagement: Case Studies from The Museum of Modern Art
- Chapter 4. Multisensory Engagement with Real Nature Relevant to Real Life
- Chapter 5. Touch and Narrative in Art and History Museums
- Part II. MUSEUMS AND SOUND
- Chapter 6. A Brain Guide to Sound Galleries
- Chapter 7. Ephemeral, Immersive, Invasive: Sound as Curatorial Theme, 1966–2013
- Chapter 8. Soundwalking the Museum: A Sonic Journey through the Visual Display
- Chapter 9. The Role of Sensory and Motor Systems in Art Appreciation and Implications for Exhibit Design
- Part III. SMELL AND TASTE IN MUSEUMS
- Chapter 10. The Forgotten Sense: Using Olfaction in a Museum Context: A Neuroscience Perspective
- Chapter 11. The Scented Museum
- Chapter 12. The Museum as Smellscape
- Chapter 13. Taste-full Museums: Educating the Senses One Plate at a Time
- Part IV. MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE AND THE SENSES
- Chapter 14. Navigating the Museum
- Chapter 15. Museum as an Embodied Experience
- Chapter 16. Architectural Design for Living Artifacts
- Part V. FUTURE MUSEUMS
- Chapter 17. Multisensory Memories: How Richer Experiences Facilitate Remembering
- Chapter 18. The Secret of Aesthetics Lies in the Conjugation of the Senses: Reimagining the Museum as a Sensory Gymnasium
- Chapter 19. Multisensory Mental Simulation and Aesthetic Perception
- Chapter 20. Islands of Stimulation: Perspectives on the Museum Experience, Present and Future
- Chapter 21. The Future Landscape of 3D in Museums
- Chapter 22. Technology, Senses, and the Future of Museums: A Conversation with Nina Levent, Heather Knight, Sebastian Chan, and Rafael Lozano Hammer
- Conclusion. Multisensory Art Museums and the Experience of Interconnection
- Index
- About the Contributors