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Emotion and the Contemporary Museum

Development of a Geographically-Informed Approach to Visitor Evaluation

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Authors:
  1. Candice P. Boyd

    1. School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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  2. Rachel Hughes

    1. School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

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  • Offers a groundbreaking new method of evaluating the emotional impact of museum exhibits on their visitors

  • Developed over several years of working closely with two international museums – The Museo Laboratorio della Mente in Rome and the Melbourne Museum in Australia

  • Provides cutting-edge solutions to staff working in museums as to how they might evaluate aspects of the visitor experience, such as emotions and embodied experience, that are very difficult to assess using conventional approaches

  • Affirms the potential for future collaborations between cultural geography and museum studies – examples of such collaborations in the literature are rare

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Museology, Cultural Geography, and the Non-representational

    • Candice P. Boyd, Rachel Hughes
    Pages 1-9

  3. Exhibiting with Emotion

    • Candice P. Boyd, Rachel Hughes
    Pages 11-21

  4. The Museo Laboratorio della Mente

    • Candice P. Boyd, Rachel Hughes
    Pages 23-50

  5. WWI: Love and Sorrow Exhibition

    • Candice P. Boyd, Rachel Hughes
    Pages 51-76

  6. Conclusion

    • Candice P. Boyd, Rachel Hughes
    Pages 77-87

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 89-92
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About this book

This book outlines a geographically-informed method of evaluating the emotional impact of museum exhibits. The authors have personally developed the method they describe over several years of working with the Museo Laboratorio della Mente in Rome and the Melbourne Museum in Australia. Informed by non-representational theories in cultural geography, this book offers solutions to museum staff for how they might evaluate aspects of visitor experience, such as emotions and embodied experience, which can be very difficult to assess using conventional approaches.

Reviews

“Emotion and the Contemporary Museum brings clear and persuasive insights from non-representational theory into the realm of new museology. The volume refreshes our capacity to understand encounters with heritage and museums, achieved primarily through detailed reflections on the use of drawing and walking as methods of evaluation. Written with lucidity, and with an emphasis on depth and richness of data, Boyd and Hughes’ well-crafted collaboration should be required reading for anyone contemplating the contemporary museum.” (Associate Professor Emma Waterton, Western Sydney University, Australia)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Candice P. Boyd, Rachel Hughes

About the authors

Candice P. Boyd is an artist-geographer and Research Fellow in the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. Her interests are in therapeutic spaces, experiences of rurality, and contemporary museums. She is author of Non-Representational Geographies of Therapeutic Art Making and co-editor of Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts, both with Palgrave Macmillan.


Rachel Hughes is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her interests are public memory and museums in Cambodia, critical geopolitics, and geographies of international criminal justice. She is co-editor of Observant States with I.B. Tauris.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Emotion and the Contemporary Museum

  • Book Subtitle: Development of a Geographically-Informed Approach to Visitor Evaluation

  • Authors: Candice P. Boyd, Rachel Hughes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8883-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8882-8Published: 11 July 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8883-5Published: 28 June 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 92

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cultural Geography, Human Geography, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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