MUSEUM MEDIA Edited by Michelle Henning

Museum Media explores the contemporary uses of diverse media in museum contexts and discusses how technology is reinventing the museum. It considers how technological changes-from photography and television through to digital mobile media-have given rise to new habits, forms of attention and behaviors. It explores how research methods can be used to understand people's relationships with media technologies and display techniques in museum contexts, as well as the new opportunities media offer for museums to engage with their visitors.

Entries written by leading experts examine the transformation of history and memory by new media, the ways in which exhibitions mediate visitor experience, how designers and curators can establish new kinds of relationships with visitors, the expansion of the museum beyond its walls and its insertion into a wider commercial and corporate landscape. Focusing on formal, theoretical and technical aspects of exhibition practice, this in-depth volume explores questions of temporality, attachment to objects, atmospheric and immersive exhibition design, the reinvention of the exhibition medium, and much more.

About the Author

MICHELLE HENNING is Professor in Photography and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is a practicing photographer and designer, and has written widely on museums, media, and photography in her books Museums, Media and Cultural Theory and Photography: The Unfettered Image.

Book Information
ISBN 9781119642022
Author Michelle Henning
Format Paperback
Page Count 704
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 1247g
Dimensions(mm) 239mm * 168mm * 41mm