Museums and the Lightness of Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7339892 |
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| Authors | Gaynor Kavanagh (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 37-37 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nordisk Museologi (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1103-8152 • E-ISSN: 2002-0503 |
| Publisher | University of Oslo Library (PUBLISHER • NO) |
| DOI | 10.5617/nm.3339 |
| OpenAlex | W2591279337 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The concept of ‘dream space’, a term coined by Sheldon Annis in 1989, introduced the museums community to the idea that a significant element in experiencing museums is concerned with the unconscious mind. Whereas hitherto research has been directed at the cognitive and outwardly cultural, Annis’s term ‘dream space’ has prompted examination of the affective and inwardly sentient (Kavanagh 2000). To understand more of the dream space, as a phenomenon of the way museums are envisaged and engaged with, is to ask questions about our subjective selves, individually and collectively, from psychological and other viewpoints. It follows that the concept of dream space begs questions about memory, emotional make-up, psychological states, life stage, life experience, cultural norms, ethnicity and gender. And it also raises questions about core beliefs and our relationship with what might be termed a spiritual dimension, however tenuous that might be for many
Aesthetics · Art · Dream · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Linguistics · Perception · Phenomenon · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Viewpoints · Visual arts · Anthropology · Art Education and Development · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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