Exhibitions as research : experimental methods in museums /
edited by Peter Bjerregaard.
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge ; Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- xi, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm.
- Routledge research in museum studies ; 29 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I Cross-disciplinary collaboration 1 Sketches for a methodology on exhibition research Rethinking research and knowledge in times of an evolutionary crisis The LAB Background and layout The "Hitler stone" and Grossraum Challenges multi-disciplinary exhibition research Concluding remarks Notes References 2 Joining transdisciplinary forces to revive the past: Establishing a Viking Garden at the Natural History Museum, Oslo Background The idea Garden on a ship in a garden: A multi-disciplinary process The solution: The Viking time machine Why a Viking Garden? Challenges relating to the exhibit Institutional challenges Viking garden spin-offs A platform for new research Conclusions Glossary References 3 Ethnography, exhibition practices and undisciplined encounters: The generative work of amulets in London Introduction: Ethnographic fieldwork and exhibition practices Ethnography, representation and new museology revisited The tragedy of representational ambitions Making amulets: Materiality and collaboration Undisciplined amulets: Setting free exhibition research Acknowledgements References Part II Sensing knowledge 4 Exhibitions as philosophical carpentry: On object-oriented exhibition-making Waking up inside an object Amplifying the dark noise of objects Philosophical carpentry and ontographical experiments Philosophical carpentry in exhibition-making The alien object in exhibition-making Notes References 5 Museum objects in the marketplace Museum versus market as research A need for attention Why The Lagoon? Museum meeting the market at The Lagoon. This is how we do it the case Interacting and observation Objects knowledge value Disparagement? Materiality and things Nature versus culture Objects displayed with sales products The visitor, collaboration and self-reflections References 6 Exhibition-Making as aesthetic Inquiry Introduction: Exhibition-making as "collapsology" Rethinking the Museum of Cultural History From "colonisation" to "COLLAPSE" Exploring "collapse" Workshop I: Material images of collapse Workshop II: The board game Workshop III: What's in a pattern? "Collapsology"-in-the-making Acknowledgements Notes References 7 Object-spaces?: Sensory engagements and museum experiments Introduction "Objects" Displaying experiments "Spaces" Experimenting with display Object-spaces? Acknowledgements Notes References Part III Collaborating with audiences 8 Exhibitions, engagement and provocation: From Future Animals to Guerilla Archaeology Introduction Future Animals Outcomes Interdisciplinary working Creativity Audience research Back to the Future Guerilla Archaeology Guiding principles Interdisciplinary teams and practices Creative, provocative and playful interactions Engaging young adult audiences Stimulate new research Guerilla Archaeology in action Enquiry-led research Exhibitions to action Acknowledgements References 9 Developing and promoting research in a museum thirdspace: Breaking barriers where people walk In the museality of thirdspace The well-known a long story The unknown the humans and colonisation Improvisations the experimental process Developing "Where people walk" observations of "Meet the Researchers" Step 1. Dialogues 1-3 Step 2. Participation Step 3. Partnership and cooperation. Step 4. Dialogue 4 Reflective analyses of the outreach Outcome of the project changes in the Museum Museum arrangement Museum researcher and expert Non-museum people Conclusion Notes References 10 Visitor dialogue and participation as knowledge generating practices in exhibition work: What can museum experts learn from it? Introduction A backdrop: the sociological turn of science communication studies The case of "The Laboratory" "The Colonising Project" at NTNU project plan and project organisation "The Laboratory Room": a room but no laboratory "The Laboratory" and its visitor workshops Visitor workshop on nature management as knowledge generating practice Experimental footmarks: "The Laboratory" and the final exhibition Acknowledging new knowledge from a visitor participation experiment Acknowledgements Notes References 11 How the exhibition became co-produced: Attunement and participatory ontologies for museums The worlds of the day centres A participatory ontology: methods of non-representation and of attunement The exhibition becoming co-produced Oral histories: editing and creating conditions for audiences to lean-in A modest politics of potential: participatory ontologies for museums Acknowledgements References Index
in English.
9781138646063 (hardback : alk. paper)
Museum exhibits--Planning. Museum buildings--Designs and plans.