Having interesting objects is no longer enough – in the modern age, museums must fulfil a myriad of visitor needs and desires. Seph Rodney traces the development of the museum experience.
What you experience when you visit an art museum these days is likely very different from what your parents did when they were your age. In plain terms, across the field, in museums, art institutions, performance forums, and even historical societies, the visitor’s experience is now being personalized. This means that not only is the visit marked by enhanced, interactive, and “dialogic” engagement, but also there is an institutional recognition of the visitor as an independent maker of meaning who uses the museum in a variety of ways to fulfill particular, individual needs and desires.
Museums and the visitor’s experience in them have always been shaped by the particular historical context that inflects institutional focus... Keep reading on Hyperallergic
What you experience when you visit an art museum these days is likely very different from what your parents did when they were your age. In plain terms, across the field, in museums, art institutions, performance forums, and even historical societies, the visitor’s experience is now being personalized. This means that not only is the visit marked by enhanced, interactive, and “dialogic” engagement, but also there is an institutional recognition of the visitor as an independent maker of meaning who uses the museum in a variety of ways to fulfill particular, individual needs and desires.
Museums and the visitor’s experience in them have always been shaped by the particular historical context that inflects institutional focus... Keep reading on Hyperallergic