Exhibitions as research : experimental methods in museums /


edited by Peter Bjerregaard.
Bok Engelsk 2020 · Electronic books.
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1 online resource : : illustrations (some color), map
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Cross-disciplinary collaboration -- 1 Sketches for a methodology on exhibition research -- Rethinking research and knowledge in times of an evolutionary crisis -- The LAB -- Background and layout -- The "Hitler stone" and Grossraum -- Challenges - multi-disciplinary exhibition research -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 2 Joining transdisciplinary forces to revive the past: Establishing a Viking Garden at the Natural History Museum, Oslo -- Background - The idea -- Garden on a ship in a garden: A multi-disciplinary process -- The solution: The Viking time machine -- Why a Viking Garden? -- Challenges relating to the exhibit -- Institutional challenges -- Viking garden spin-offs -- A platform for new research -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- References -- 3 Ethnography, exhibition practices and undisciplined encounters: The generative work of amulets in London -- Introduction: Ethnographic fieldwork and exhibition practices -- Ethnography, representation and new museology revisited -- The tragedy of representational ambitions -- Making amulets: Materiality and collaboration -- Undisciplined amulets: Setting free exhibition research -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II Sensing knowledge -- 4 Exhibitions as philosophical carpentry: On object-oriented exhibition-making -- Waking up inside an object -- Amplifying the dark noise of objects -- Philosophical carpentry and ontographical experiments -- Philosophical carpentry in exhibition-making -- The alien object in exhibition-making -- Notes -- References -- 5 Museum objects in the marketplace -- Museum versus market as research -- A need for attention -- Why The Lagoon? -- Museum meeting the market at The Lagoon.. - Step 4. Dialogue 4 -- Reflective analyses of the outreach -- Outcome of the project - changes in the Museum -- Museum arrangement -- Museum researcher and expert -- Non-museum people -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10 Visitor dialogue and participation as knowledge generating practices in exhibition work: What can museum experts learn from it? -- Introduction -- A backdrop: the sociological turn of science communication studies -- The case of "The Laboratory" -- "The Colonising Project" at NTNU - project plan and project organisation -- "The Laboratory Room": a room but no laboratory -- "The Laboratory" and its visitor workshops -- Visitor workshop on nature management as knowledge generating practice -- Experimental footmarks: "The Laboratory" and the final exhibition -- Acknowledging new knowledge from a visitor participation experiment -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 11 How the exhibition became co-produced: Attunement and participatory ontologies for museums -- The worlds of the day centres -- A participatory ontology: methods of non-representation and of attunement -- The exhibition becoming co-produced -- Oral histories: editing and creating conditions for audiences to lean-in -- A modest politics of potential: participatory ontologies for museums -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.. - This is how we do it - the case -- Interacting and observation -- Objects - knowledge - value -- Disparagement? -- Materiality and things -- Nature versus culture -- Objects displayed with sales products -- The visitor, collaboration and self-reflections -- References -- 6 Exhibition-Making as aesthetic Inquiry -- Introduction: Exhibition-making as "collapsology" -- Rethinking the Museum of Cultural History -- From "colonisation" to "COLLAPSE" -- Exploring "collapse" -- Workshop I: Material images of collapse -- Workshop II: The board game -- Workshop III: What's in a pattern? -- "Collapsology"-in-the-making -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 7 Object-spaces?: Sensory engagements and museum experiments -- Introduction -- "Objects" -- Displaying experiments -- "Spaces" -- Experimenting with display -- Object-spaces? -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Part III Collaborating with audiences -- 8 Exhibitions, engagement and provocation: From Future Animals to Guerilla Archaeology -- Introduction -- Future Animals -- Outcomes -- Interdisciplinary working -- Creativity -- Audience research -- Back to the Future -- Guerilla Archaeology -- Guiding principles -- Interdisciplinary teams and practices -- Creative, provocative and playful interactions -- Engaging young adult audiences -- Stimulate new research -- Guerilla Archaeology in action -- Enquiry-led research -- Exhibitions to action -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9 Developing and promoting research in a museum thirdspace: Breaking barriers where people walk -- In the museality of thirdspace -- The well-known - a long story -- The unknown - the humans and colonisation -- Improvisations - the experimental process -- Developing "Where people walk" - observations of "Meet the Researchers" -- Step 1. Dialogues 1-3 -- Step 2. Participation -- Step 3. Partnership and cooperation.. - Exhibitions as Research contends that museums would be more attractive to both researchers and audiences if we consider exhibitions as knowledge-in-the-making rather than platforms for disseminating already-established insights. Analysing the theoretical underpinnings and practical challenges of such an approach, the book questions whether it is possible to exhibit knowledge that is still in the making, whilst also considering which concepts of "knowledge" apply to such a format. The book also considers what the role of audience might be if research is extended into the exhibition itself. Providing concretecasestudiesofprojects where museum professionals have approached exhibition making as a knowledge-generating process, the book considers tools of application and the challenges that might emerge from pursuing such an approach. Theoretically, the volume analyses the emergence of exhibitions as researchas part of recent developments within materiality theories, object-oriented ontology and participatory approaches to exhibition-making. Exhibitions as Research will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museology, material culture, anthropology and archaeology. It will also appeal to museum professionals with an interest in current trends in exhibition-making.
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