Play in museums

A scoping review

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ID14947330
AutoresNanna Holdgaard (0000-0001-6591-5146, National Museum of Denmark, autor de correspondencia), Anne Rørbæk Olesen (0009-0008-5025-2739, National Museum of Denmark)
Año2025
Volumen40
Número2
Páginas251-274
Fecha de publicación2025-03-04
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMuseum Management and Curatorship (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0964-7775 • E-ISSN: 1872-9185
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09647775.2023.2269184
OpenAlexW4387666664
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas58

This article presents a quantitative scoping review of play in museums, focusing on when, where, and how play has been applied and researched. The findings indicate that the attention to play in museum settings is a relatively recent and growing tendency. Additionally, the review reveals a notable Western bias, with a significant concentration of studies originating from the United States, primarily in the context of children’s museums. Interestingly, the majority of studies on play in museums have been published outside the broader museum studies field. Furthermore, nearly half of the reviewed studies do not treat play as a central and defined concept and only 35% of the studies investigate play empirically as a central and defined concept. Based on our findings, we call for more research published within the field of museum studies as well as encourage further empirical investigations where play is a central and defined concept

Archaeology · Geography · Art Education and Development · Museology · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Participatory Visual Research Methods

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