Collections Emerge from the Shadows: Exhibition Design, or a Multi-sensory Approach to Reinvesting in Collections

Gobbato, Viviana

doi:10.1080/13500775.2022.2157554

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“…These lighting designs seem to favour ostensive, cognitive and aesthetic functions, contributing to the identity of museums. They also participate in the reinvestment of their collections, structuring and punctuating the itinerary, and allowing a sensitive, even contemplative experience, as was recently studied (Gobbato, 2022b).…”

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Illuminating Museums. From Design to Experience

Gobbato

2023

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This paper raises the possibility of museum lighting as a tool for ‘mediation’ within museums. It studies its functions in the process of interpreting, transmitting and receiving collections. Based on a comprehensive approach to design and experience, the author focuses specifically on three possible functions: ostensive function (to show space and artworks), cognitive function (to influence the construction of meaning and reasoning), and aesthetic function (to stimulate sensitive and contemplative states). To explore the mediating functions of lighting in both design and experience, she discusses the findings from several case studies (30 European museums), interviews with lighting designers and museum managers (54), as well as participant observations (4 months) and surveys on embodied cognition and experience (26). Three concepts emerge that could contribute to new research studies in the field of museology, specifically focusing on exhibition design and the visitor experience: ‘museum lighting design,’ ‘light sensory index’ and ‘luminous sensory mediation.’

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Illuminating Museums. From Design to Experience

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2023

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“…The main principle of atmosphere elements is that the environment has the ability to influence people's behavior; this influence can be manipulated in noticeable and predictable ways through the area's ambience design choices (Biswas et al, 2014;Forrest, 2015;Elvekrok and Gulbrandsy, 2021), Today, the museum is both an aesthetic emotion producer and an intercultural mediator. The overlapping of the physical, social, and personal context results in the overall museum visitors' experience (Harada et al, 2018), since they establish a multi-sensory impressions of exhibition design that creates an aesthetic and emotive experience for museum visitors (Gobbato, 2022). Atmospheric elements can have significant importance in conveying the intended message to visitors and establishing sensory perception and satisfaction (Ozkul et al, 2019;Elkadi et al, 2021), because it has the ability to enrich cultural institutions, impact visitors' satisfaction, which leads to repeat visits (Piancatelli et al, 2021).…”

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The Atmospheric Elements of the Egyptian Museums and Their Effect on the Egyptians' Intentions to Revisit

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SOLIMAN³

2023

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This study aims to fill the salient gap in the area of museums' atmospheric elements by examining their effect on the Egyptian visitors’ behavioral outcomes and the resulting effect on their intention to revisit the museum. An online questionnaire was distributed to a convenient sample of the Egyptian museums' visitors (346 respondents) to gather and analyze primary data along with analyzing the secondary data (literature). The results confirmed that museum's atmospheric elements have a positive and significant effect on the visitors’ experiences. This resulted in positive behavioral outcomes that consequently affected the Egyptian visitors’ intention to revisit the museum. This study investigates the importance of taking the physical design and atmospheric elements into consideration by the museum curators and managers, especially during the current phase in Egypt where various museum renewals and constructions are being held.

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