Storytelling in Museums

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2022
American Alliance of Museums (Verlag)
9781538156940 (ISBN)

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This book demonstrates how museums can use personal stories to make visitors feel welcome while inspiring them to engage with new ideas. It also explores the responsibilities of museum practitioners toward the storytellers included in their narratives and how those responsibilities shift over time and manifest in different contexts.

With chapters written by a diverse set of practitioners from across the museum field and around the world, Storytelling in Museums explores the efficacy and ethics of storytelling in museums.

The book shows how museums use personal, local, and specific stories to make visitors feel welcome while inspiring them to engage with new ideas and unfamiliar situations. At the same time, the book explores the responsibilities of museum practitioners toward the storytellers included in their narratives and how those responsibilities shift over time and manifest in different contexts.

The book’s eighteen chapters represent a conversation among a diverse set of professionals for whom storytelling connotes their daily museum practice. As educators, collectors, curators, designers, marketers, researchers, planners, and collaborators, the authors of this book consider the “real work” of storytelling from every angle. From the inclusion of personal stories in educational programs to the meta-narratives on display in exhibitions, this book balances practical examples with ethical considerations, placing the praxis of storytelling within the larger context of the 21st century museum. The book moves beyond advocacy for storytelling as an essential part of the museum’s toolkit to explore the many ways in which museums use personal stories, and multiple storytelling techniques, to support the larger public narratives embedded in their missions.

The contributors demonstrate how museums that emphasize storytelling from multiple angles can serve as a kind of counterpoint to our tendency to fixate on singular images of things we know little about. They encourage museums to both acknowledge that they cannot control the narrative and to embrace their power to contribute to it through the multivalent, multivocal stories they choose to share.

For more than fifteen years, Adina Langer has focused her museum career on interpreting traumatic historical events for diverse audiences while emphasizing the dignity and individuality of the people who experienced them. An active curator, oral historian, educator, presenter, editor, blogger, and published author, she has created or co-curated more than eighteen exhibits with permanent homes at three museums, presence on the Web, and a busy schedule traveling the library, school, and community center circuit. Follow her on Twitter @Artiflection and find her on the web at www.artiflection.com.

Preface
by Adina Langer
Part One: Storytelling Methods
The Why, What, and How of the Best Storytelling in Museum Exhibitionsby Benjamin Filene
Storytelling by Design: Inclusive Museum Experiencesby Corey Timpson
Telling Stories at the National September 11 Memorial & Museumby Amy Weinstein
Building a New Museum on the Personal Stories Paradigm: How Design, Content, and Technology Come Together to Make a Museum Based on Storytellingby Anna E. Tucker
Unearthing Buried Histories: Interpreting Individuals and Collective History in Cemeteriesby Marcy Breffle and Mary Margaret Fernandez
Interconnection: How Personal Stories are Expanding the Public Narrativeby Miriam Bader
Mobilizing Personal Narrative: Storytelling at Holocaust Museumsby Adina Langer
Reflections on Practicing Sankofa in Museums and Theatresby Deitrah Taylor
Storytelling in Science Museumsby Rebecca Melsheimer and Jose Santamaria
Museums in Your Pocket: Digital Storytelling Strategies in Cultural Institutionsby Lois Carlisle
Part Two: Storytelling in the Community
Working on Storytelling: A Pioneering Initiative in a Changing Context for the Moroccan Museum Cultureby Samir El Azhar
Turn On, Tune In: A Community Storytelling Project with the New Mexico History Museumby Judy Goldberg and Meredith Schweitzer
Queer Museum Narratives and the Family Audienceby Margaret Middleton
From a Single Family’s Story to Diverse Stories of Immigration and Work in the Rondoutby Sarah Litvin
Threads in the Fabric of Legacy: The Stories in the Exhibit “Chinese Medicine in America: Converging Ideas, People and Practices,” Museum of the Chinese in America, New York City, April 2018by Donna Mah
Privileging Community Voices: The Indian Arts Research Centerby Elysia Poon
Transformative Inclusion in Exhibition Planningby Michelle Grohe
Honoring the Ancestors: Descendant Voices at Montpelierby Iris Carter Ford, Patrice Preston-Grimes, and Christian J. Cotz
Acknowledgments
About the Editor and the Contributors
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	21.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	American Alliance of Museums
Zusatzinfo	18 b/w photos; 1 table
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 220 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-13	9781538156940 / 9781538156940
Zustand	Neuware