Designing immersion exhibits as border-crossing environments
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Designing immersion exhibits as border-crossing environments. / Mortensen, Marianne Foss.
I: Museum Management and Curatorship, Bind 25, Nr. 3, 2010, s. 323-336.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing immersion exhibits as border-crossing environments
AU - Mortensen, Marianne Foss
N1 - Paper id:: 10.1080/09647775.2010.498990
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Science museum exhibits embody both content and form, and these aspects are not independent of each other. However, selecting the right form for a given content is not straightforward. This paper provides an example of how science education theory, specifically the notion of border crossing, can be applied to achieve an understanding of the immersion exhibit form. The argument proceeds by demonstrating how the characteristics of immersion exhibits, and visitors to them, classify them as microcultures, and examining the implications of this for exhibit design using a hypothetical immersion exhibit as a case. Finally, the generalisability of the findings is discussed as an example of applying education theory to exhibit development.
AB - Science museum exhibits embody both content and form, and these aspects are not independent of each other. However, selecting the right form for a given content is not straightforward. This paper provides an example of how science education theory, specifically the notion of border crossing, can be applied to achieve an understanding of the immersion exhibit form. The argument proceeds by demonstrating how the characteristics of immersion exhibits, and visitors to them, classify them as microcultures, and examining the implications of this for exhibit design using a hypothetical immersion exhibit as a case. Finally, the generalisability of the findings is discussed as an example of applying education theory to exhibit development.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - immersion exhibit
KW - cultural border crossing
KW - museum exhibit design
KW - science museum exhibits
KW - visitor experience
U2 - 10.1080/09647775.2010.498990
DO - 10.1080/09647775.2010.498990
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 323
EP - 336
JO - Museum Management and Curatorship
JF - Museum Management and Curatorship
SN - 0964-7775
IS - 3
ER -
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