Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Museology, Cultural Geography, and Non-representational; Abstract; Introduction; New Museology and the Performative Museum; Museum Geographies; Museums and the Non-representational; References; Chapter 2 Exhibiting with Emotion; Abstract; Introduction; Emotion and Curatorship; The Visitor Experience; Audience Evaluation and the Visitor-Centred Museum; Conclusion: 'Bridging the Gap'; References; Chapter 3 The Museo Laboratorio della Mente; Abstract; Introduction; Experiencing MLM; Research Questions; Method; Conducting the Analysis
Findings and DiscussionEmpathy for the Patient; Empathy for the Experience of Mental Illness; Empathy for the Incarcerated/Isolated Patient; Institutionalisation; Abstractions; Exhibits: Orologio, Fascia, Forchetta; Colour and Media; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 WWI: Love and Sorrow Exhibition; Abstract; Introduction; The Love & Sorrow Exhibition; Aims and Rationale for Our Research; Method; Findings; The Nature of Empathy; Passive Empathy; Transformative Empathy; The Viscerality of Emotion; The Immateriality of Objects; Ambiance and Atmosphere; Overall Impact of the Exhibition
Public Exhibition of Research FindingsConclusions; References; Chapter 5 Conclusion; Abstract; Introduction; A Drawing/Walking Method of Visitor Evaluation; Feeling Bodies; Encounter; Summary and Recommendations; References; Index
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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.
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Emotion and the Contemporary Museum : Development of a Geographically-Informed Approach to Visitor Evaluation.