Title: Museum objects : experiencing the properties of things /
Authors: Dudley, Sandra H.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Museums Social aspects; Museums Psychological aspects.; Museum exhibits Social aspects.; Museum exhibits Psychological aspects.; Material culture Social aspects.; Material culture Psychological aspects.; Senses and sensation Social aspects.; Senses and sensation Psychological aspects.
Abstract: Museum objects" provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and definition of the object itself, the senses and embodied experience of objects. No other volume brings together such perspectives in this way, and no other volume includes such a focus on the museum context. 00.