The multisensory museum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14712657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Morgan (0000-0002-5757-8888, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-77 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Glasnik Etnografskog instituta (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0350-0861 • E-ISSN: 2334-8259 |
| Publisher | National Library of Serbia (PUBLISHER • RS) |
| DOI | 10.2298/gei1201065m |
| OpenAlex | W1980263669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 9 |
Traditionally, museums have been visual - ‘Do Not Touch’ - spaces. However, interactive and multisensory media are increasingly being used to help pursue wider democratic goals of appealing to new and more diverse audiences. This essay examines how one museum, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow (Scotland), has sought to reconfigure its sensory regimes of display. It discusses the incorporation of multiple sensory logics and queries whether one potential result of such mixings is a kind of sensory disorientation
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Democracy · Political science · Politics · Sensory system · Sociology · Visual arts · Communication · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Psychology
The Taste of Ethnographic Things
The Varieties of sensory experience
The Fate of the Senses in Ethnographic Modernity
The Book of Touch
Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge
Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision
Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
The death of the sensuous chemist
The birth of the museum
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |