Museum Experience Revisited.

ISBN:

9781611320466

9781611320442

9781611320459

Title:

Museum Experience Revisited.

Author:

Falk, John H. (John Howard), 1948-

Personal Author:

Falk, John H. (John Howard), 1948-

Publication Information:

Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 pages)

Contents:

Part I. Before the Visit -- Part II. During the Visit -- Part III. After the Visit -- Part IV. A Professional's Guide to the Museum Experience --

Introduction: The Contextual Model of Learning -- Before the Visit -- The Personal Context: Identity-Related Motivations -- The Sociocultural Context: Museums in Society -- The Personal Context: Prior Experience, Interest, and Knowledge -- During the Visit -- The Physical Context: Exhibitions -- The Physical Context: More than Exhibitions -- The Sociocultural Context: In the Museum -- The Interplay of Contexts: The Museum as Gestalt -- After the Visit -- The Museum Experience Remembered -- Measuring the Learning Impact of Museums -- A Professional's Guide to the Museum Experience -- Supporting the Museum Experience Before, During, and After the Visit -- The Twenty-First-Century Museum.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Museums -- Environmental aspects.

Museums -- Biography.

Museums -- Educational aspects.

Museums -- History.

Museums.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology.

REFERENCE -- General.

TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.

Museums -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01030164

General.

Museum Publications.

Added Author:

Dierking, Lynn D. (Lynn Diane), 1956-

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=506654

Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2012.

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Summary

The first book to take a visitor's eye view of the museum visit when it was first published in 1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking have updated this essential reference, incorporating advances in research, theory, and practice in the museum field over the last twenty years. Written in clear, non-technical style, The Museum Experience Revisited paints a thorough picture of why people go to museums, what they do there, how they learn, and what museum practitioners can do to enhance these experiences.

Author Notes

John Falk is a co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Learning Innovation in Annapolis, Maryland, where he resides.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

The authors' The Museum Experience (1992) has proved itself a useful guide to the structure and operations of museums, but Falk and Dierking (both, Oregon State Univ.) give solid reasons for this revision. Museum visitors have tripled in number worldwide, and the number of institutions has doubled. The authors see a "quantum increase in related scholarship," and museums changing somewhat from traditional institutions that host exhibitions to institutions that host exhibitions but do not maintain collections. The authors indicate that the museum's character is changing from being "a nicety in society to a necessity." This book aims to enhance understanding of the museum experience, in part through a focus on organizing visitors' experience via the Contextual Model of Learning, which combines personal, sociocultural, and physical phenomena with an awareness that each visitor comes with individual experiences. The bulk of the book analyzes the museum visit--before, during, and after, with an emphasis on the latter. The last chapter, "Beyond the Visit," aims at the future, with challenging goals that include promoting exchanges of intellectually important ideas, building self-actualization, and more. Most important, according to the authors, tomorrow's museum should be committed to public service and to reinventing its philosophy and practice. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals/practitioners. K. A. Marantz emeritus, Ohio State University