The ‘expert visitor’ concept

Duma, Jean; Gottesdiener, Hanna; Poli, Marie-Sylvie

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“…As studies of guest books in the West have shown, the comments made here refer primarily to the display and to the content of what is on show. In the books we often encounter 'expert visitors' (Davallon et al 2000) who have developed an overview through comparisons between museums and believe this empowers and entitles them to offer profound criticism of the exhibition, its design and the curatorial approach. Particularly in the guest books in historical museums and memorials we also encounter visitors who acquire their expertise from their personal biographies or from their (e.g.…”

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Uncharted territory: Visitor books of Indian museums. The Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum in Bhopal – a case study

Roß¹

2017

Mus. Soc.

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Visitor books for the general public are rather uncommon in India. As far as research is concerned, they are still mostly uncharted territory. The few existing visitor books, however, acquire a special significance: as pioneers in a nascent dialogue between visitors and institutions. This article explores their potential for providing information about the visitors to museums in India: their expectations and experiences, even their consciousness as citizens. Taking the visitor book of the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum in Bhopal in central India as an example, the article shows how the priorities of Indian commentators differ significantly from what researchers have found in visitor books of museums in the West – in terms of the issues addressed, of the form and style of the comments, and of the social references. This piece of research is part of a larger study examining how the historically foreign concept of the museum can be culturally adopted and made its own by an Indian public.

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Uncharted territory: Visitor books of Indian museums. The Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum in Bhopal – a case study

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2017

Mus. Soc.

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“…It is true that we are all exposed to fleeting references to extremely violent past events, and it would be good to draw lessons from them: whether from novels, the media, or the commemorations designed to reach a broad "national" public. But the few social science studies that exist clearly demonstrate that memorial events primarily concern two groups: first students, who are a "captive" audience, and second, retired people and professionals, a "faithful" and "expert" audience (Davallon, 2000;Eidelmann and Raguet-Candito, 2002). Even the supposedly most attractive incarnations of these policies struggle to attract large numbers.…”

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Beyond Memory

Gensburger

Lefranc

2020

Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

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This book provides a fresh perspective on the familiar belief that memory policies are successful in building peaceful societies. Whether in a stable democracy or in the wake of a violent political conflict, this book argues that memory policies are largely unhelpful in preventing hate, genocide, and mass crimes. Since the 1990s, transmitting the memory of violent pasts has been used in attempts to foster tolerance and fight racism, hate and antisemitism. However, countries that invested in memory policies have overseen the rise of hate crimes and populisms instead of growing social cohesion. Breaking with the usual moralistic position, this book takes stock of this situation. Where do these memory policies come from? Whom do they serve? Can we make them more effective? In other words, can we really learn from the past? At a time when memory studies is blooming, this book questions the normative belief in the effects of memory.

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“…Among the visitors who were not yet retired, only 1.8% were working class; inversely, 34% were managers or senior intellectual professionals. Finally, a large number were ‘expert visitors’ (Davallon et al, 2000), with 80% attending more than one historical exhibition a year, 37% more than three, 45% saying they were passionate about history and 40% saying they were particularly interested in the history of WWII.…”

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Visiting history, witnessing memory: A study of a Holocaust Exhibition in Paris in 2012

Gensburger¹

2017

Memory Studies

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Over the past 20 years, the number of memorial museums and memory exhibitions has increased exponentially and the commemoration of the Holocaust paved the way for this increase. This evolution has given rise to a significant amount of research. However, two questions remain largely unanswered: how are the protocols of memorial exhibitions planned and constructed in concrete terms? And then how do the visitors to these exhibitions use and appropriate this material? The search for the ‘visitor’s gaze’ which is at the heart of contemporary museum studies has only rarely been extended to memorial museums and exhibitions, even those dealing with Holocaust-related topics. This article aims to address this goal. It is thus situated at the crossroads of memory studies and museum studies. Based on extensive empirical material but within the limits of a case study, it focuses on the exhibition C’étaient des enfants. Déportation et sauvetage des enfants juifs à Paris, which was held at the Hotel de Ville in Paris, in 2012. In so doing, it aims to consider some of the underlying assumptions that often go unexamined in the scholarly work on Holocaust memory exhibitions and highlights the centrality of the witnessing memory mechanism as the main way of appropriating the exhibition.

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The ‘expert visitor’ concept

Cited by 45 publications

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Uncharted territory: Visitor books of Indian museums. The Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum in Bhopal – a case study

Uncharted territory: Visitor books of Indian museums. The Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum in Bhopal – a case study

Beyond Memory

Visiting history, witnessing memory: A study of a Holocaust Exhibition in Paris in 2012

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