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Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and shaping of museums.

Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions examines this re-making by exploring the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potential to connect on the deepest levels with human perception and imagination. Through this uniting theme, the chapters explore the power of narratives as structured experiences unfolding in space and time as well as the use of theatre, film and other technologies of storytelling by contemporary museum makers to generate meaningful and, it is argued here, highly effective and affective museum spaces. Contributions by an internationally diverse group of museum and heritage professionals, exhibition designers, architects and artists with academics from a range of disciplines including museum studies, theatre studies, architecture, design and history cut across traditional boundaries including the historical and the contemporary and together explore the various roles and functions of narrative as a mechanism for the creation of engaging and meaningful interpretive environments.

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• List of illustrations(p. x)
• List of contributors(p. xiii)
• Acknowledgements(p. xviii)
• Introduction: Museum making: the place of narrative(p. xix)
• Part I Narrative, space, identity(p. 1)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 Imaginary museums: what mainstream museums can learn from them(p. 5)
• 2 Staging exhibitions: atmospheres of imagination(p. 12)
• 3 Writing spatial stories: textual narratives in the museum(p. 21)
• 4 Athens, London or Bilbao? Contested narratives of display in the Parthenon galleries of the British Museum(p. 34)
• 5 This magical place: the making of Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the politics of landscape, art and narrative(p. 48)
• 6 Narrative space: three post-apartheid museums reconsidered(p. 63)
• 7 The museum as narrative witness: heritage performance and the production of narrative space(p. 74)
• 8 Beyond narrative: designing epiphanies(p. 83)
• 9 Place, time and memory(p. 95)
• Part II Narrative, perception, embodiment(p. 105)
• Introduction(p. 105)
• 10 Scales of narrativity(p. 107)
• 11 City as museum, museum as city: mediating the everyday and special narratives of life(p. 119)
• 12 Narrative transformations and the architectural artefact(p. 132)
• 13 Architecture for the nation's memory: history, art, and the halls of Norway's national gallery(p. 144)
• 14 Arsenic, wells and herring curing: making new meanings in an old fish factory(p. 157)
• 15 Accessing Estonian memories: building narratives through game form(p. 168)
• 16 Narrative landscapes(p. 179)
• 17 Narrative environments and the paradigm of embodiment(p. 192)
• Part III Narrative, media, mediation(p. 201)
• Introduction(p. 201)
• 18 Narrative space: The Book of Lies(p. 203)
• 19 Productive exhibitions: looking backwards to go forward(p. 213)
• 20 Incomplete stories(p. 223)
• 21 In the museum's rains: staging the passage of time(p. 234)
• 22 Meaningful encounters with disrupted narratives: artists' interventionsas interpretive strategies(p. 247)
• 23 Where do you want the label? The roles and possibilities of exhibition graphics(p. 257)
• 24 The narrative of technology: understanding the effect of New Media artwork in the museum(p. 267)
• 25 The thick present: architecture, narration and film(p. 277)
• 26 A narrative journey: creating storytelling environments with architecture and digital media(p. 288)
• Select bibliography(p. 298)
• Index(p. 305)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Suzanne MacLeod is Senior Lecture in the School of Museum Studies University of Leicester, UK.
Laura Hourston Hanks is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham, UK.
Jonathan Hale is an architect and Reader in Architectural Theory at the University of Nottingham, UK.