My voice counts because I’m handsome.’ Democratising the museum
The power of museum participation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12533320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachael Coghlan (0000-0003-1800-183X, ,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 795-809 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2017.1320772 |
| OpenAlex | W2625122995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 34 |
Participation – where visitors are invited to leave a comment, co-create, or contribute to exhibitions – has been hailed as an opportunity to democratise the museum experience. New qualitative data from on-site and follow up interviews with museum visitors and practitioners at the experimental exhibition Power of 1 at the Museum of Australian Democracy has been used as a case study to determine if the rhetoric of the highly interactive, audience-centred approach of the participatory museum is meeting its aims. This paper argues that participation has the potential to democratise the museum experience for visitors, particularly when a more expansive definition is applied which acknowledges the benefits of participation beyond simply leaving a comment. Participation can provoke conversations and forge connections with real and imagined communities within the museum and beyond; however this potential is hampered by the often unacknowledged undemocratic practices within institutions by professionals who devalue visitor participation and power-sharing in order to uphold traditional museum practices
Art · Audience participation · Business · Citizen journalism · Democracy · Exhibition · Expansive · Media studies · Museum informatics · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Rhetoric · Sociology · Visitor pattern · Visual arts · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Law · Museology · Museums and Cultural Heritage
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| Citations per year | 1.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |