Title: Museum materialities : objects, engagements, interpretations /
Authors: Dudley, Sandra.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Museums Social aspects; Museums Psychological aspects.; Museum visitors.; Museum exhibits Social aspects.; Museum exhibits Psychological aspects.; Material culture Social aspects.; Material culture Psychological aspects.; Senses and sensation Social aspects.; Emotions Social aspects; Aesthetics Social aspects.
Contents: Museum materialities : objects, sense and feeling / Sandra H. Dudley -- Objects. Photographs and history : emotion and materiality / Elizabeth Edwards -- Remembering the dead by affecting the living : the case of a miniature model of Treblinka / Andrea Witcomb -- Touching the Buddha : encounters with a charismatic object / Christopher Wingfield -- Contemporary art : an immaterial practice? / Helen Pheby -- The eyes have it : eye movements and the debatable differences between original objects and reproductions / Helen Saunderson, Alice Cruickshank and Eugene McSorley -- Engagements. Experiencing materiality in the museum : artefacts re-made / Alexander Stevenson -- Virginia Woolf's glasses : material encounters in the literary/artistic house museum / Nuala Hancock -- When ethnographies enter art galleries / Lydia Nakashima Degarrod -- Engaging the material world : object knowledge and Australian Journeys / Kirsten Wehner and Martha Sear -- Watch your step : embodiment and encounter at Tate Modern / Helen Rees Leahy -- Reconsidering digital surrogates : toward a viewer-orientated model of the gallery experience / Bradley L. Taylor -- Interpretations. Dancing pot and pregnant jar? : on ceramics, metaphors and creative labels / Wing Yan Vivian Ting -- Myth, memory and the senses in the Churchill Museum / Sheila Watson -- Dreams and wishes : the multi-sensory museum space / Viv Golding -- Making meaning beyond display / Chris Dorsett -- Authenticity and object relations in contemporary performance art / Klare Scarborough -- Afterword / Howard Morphy.