Museographic transposition: The development of a museum exhibit on animal adaptations to darkness
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Museographic transposition : The development of a museum exhibit on animal adaptations to darkness. / Mortensen, Marianne Foss.
I: Éducation et Didactique, Bind 4, Nr. 1, 2010, s. 119-137.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Museographic transposition
T2 - The development of a museum exhibit on animal adaptations to darkness
AU - Mortensen, Marianne Foss
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Science museums define the objectives of their exhibitions in terms of visitor learning outcomes, yet exhibition engineering staff lack theoretical and empirical research findings on which to base the creation of these educational environments. Here, a first step towards providing such research is reported. Museographic transposition was used as an analytical framework to investigate the development of an existing museum exhibit on animal adaptations to darkness. The analysis yielded a descriptive model of exhibition engineering as a three-stage process in which simultaneous processes of epistemological development and museum-pedagogical development result in the curatorial brief which forms the basis of the subsequent museographic development of the physical exhibit. Examples are discussed which illustrate the use of the model in identifying exhibition inconsistencies, but also in generating new ideas for exhibition engineering. The potential for further developing the model is discussed.
AB - Science museums define the objectives of their exhibitions in terms of visitor learning outcomes, yet exhibition engineering staff lack theoretical and empirical research findings on which to base the creation of these educational environments. Here, a first step towards providing such research is reported. Museographic transposition was used as an analytical framework to investigate the development of an existing museum exhibit on animal adaptations to darkness. The analysis yielded a descriptive model of exhibition engineering as a three-stage process in which simultaneous processes of epistemological development and museum-pedagogical development result in the curatorial brief which forms the basis of the subsequent museographic development of the physical exhibit. Examples are discussed which illustrate the use of the model in identifying exhibition inconsistencies, but also in generating new ideas for exhibition engineering. The potential for further developing the model is discussed.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - museum
KW - opstilling
KW - museografisk transposition
KW - dyrs tilpasninger
KW - naturfagsformidling
KW - opstillingsdesign
KW - udstilling
KW - museum
KW - exhibit
KW - museographic transposition
KW - animal adaptations
KW - informal science education
KW - exhibit design
KW - exhibition
M3 - Journal article
VL - 4
SP - 119
EP - 137
JO - Education et Didactique
JF - Education et Didactique
SN - 1956-3485
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 17079776