Museum Effect (eBook)

How Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Institutions Educate and Civilize Society

Jeffrey K. Smith (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
212 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7591-2296-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Museums, libraries, and cultural institutions are opportunities for people to understand and celebrate who we are, were, and might be. These institutions are vehicles for educating and civilizing society that work on a variety of levels, ranging from a community event to a single child making a first visit. The Museum Effect documents this phenomenon, explains how it happens, and makes suggestions as to how these institutions can work to facilitate this process.

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Museums, libraries, and cultural institutions provide opportunities for people to understand and celebrate who they are, were, and might be. These institutions educate the public and civilize society in a variety of ways, ranging from community events to a single child making a first visit. The Museum Effect documents this phenomenon, explains how it happens, and shows how institutions can facilitate this process.Cultural institutions vary dramatically in size, nature and purpose, but they all allow visitors to hold conversations with artists and authors perhaps long dead. These conversations, sometimes with others present, and sometimes with artists, scientists, explorers, or authors not present, allow visitors to explore their lives and their "e;possible selves."e; Cultural institutions inspire personal reflection, and help visitors better themselves, in that they leave having contemplated what is noble, excellent, or exemplary about the society in which they live. The "e;museum effect"e; is a process through which cultural institutions educate and civilize us as individuals and as societies. These institutions allow visitors to spend some time with their thoughts elevated, and leave the institution better people in some meaningful fashion than when they entered. This visionary book presents the underlying idea and the argument for the museum effect, along with empirical research supporting that argument. It will help those working in museums, libraries, and archivists to facilitate this process, and study how this is working in their own institutions.

Autor

Jeffrey K. Smith is professor and associate dean for research in the College of Education at the University of Otago, New Zealand

Inhalt

: Introduction –Who We were, Who We are, Who We Might BecomeThe Nature of Visits to Cultural InstitutionsTime, Flow, and the Unit of AnalysisDefiningThe Museum Effectshould we look at art versus how do we look at art?A brief tour of model cityExpanding the Museum Effect to Other Cultural Institutions and EventsHow to Enhance the Museum EffectThe basics: “We are in your hands!”Investigating the Museum Effect and Other Research in Cultural InstitutionsThe nature of asking questions, in particular, research questionsModels of the processes involved in research and evaluationExamples and extensionsExtending what we know about the Museum EffectA Final WordIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Education • role of museums
• ISBN-10: 0-7591-2296-2 / 0759122962
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7591-2296-3 / 9780759122963