ISBN:
9781032115870
,
1032115874
,
9781032115917
,
1032115912
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 286 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2023
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
940.53/1864
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) / Museums
;
Holocaust memorials / Social aspects
;
Historical museum visitors / Attitudes
;
Historical museums / Psychological aspects
Abstract:
Visitor Experience in Museum Spaces -- Digital Engagement Inside and Outside the Museum and Memory Site -- Visitors at Former Camp Sites.
Abstract:
"Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums is the first volume to offer comprehensive insights into visitor reactions to a wide range of museum exhibitions, memorials, and memory sites. Drawing exclusively upon empirical research, chapters within the book offer critical insights about visitor experience at museums and memory sites in the United States, Poland, Austria, Germany, France, the UK, Norway, Hungary, Australia, and Israel. The contributions to the volume explore visitor experience in all its complexity and argue that visitors are more than just 'learners'. Approaching visitor experience as a multidimensional phenomenon, the book positions visitor experience within a diverse national, ethnic, cultural, social, and generational context. It also considers the impact of museums' curatorial and design choices, visitor motivations and expectations, and the crucial role emotions play in shaping understanding of historical events and subjects. By approaching visitors as active interpreters of memory spaces and museum exhibitions, Popescu and the contributing authors provide a much-needed insight into the different ways in which members of the public act as 'agents of memory', endowing this history with personal and collective meaning and relevance. Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums offers significant insights into audience motivation, expectation, and behaviour. It is essential reading for academics, postgraduate students and practitioners with an interest in museums and heritage, visitor studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, and tourism"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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