Tag: museum studies

• January 21, 2023

  “Making a museum collection more effective through active loaning, open storage, and source community collaboration”

  INTRODUCTION It is no longer enough for museums to keep a majority of their collection in storage solely for future generations. As the Museums Association (Cross and Wilkinson, 2007:18) stated in their ‘Making Collections Effective’ report, “It is becoming increasingly difficult to justify spending public money caring for public resources whose potential is never seen…
• January 21, 2023

  “Methods and approaches to facilitating sensory experiences within a museum”

  INTRODUCTION As a standard within museums today, objects and exhibits are primarily presented to appeal to the viewer’s visual sense. This can pose as a significant barrier between the viewer and their depth of understanding of an artefact. In some cases this also limits a person’s capacity to experience an object as it was originally…