The multisensory museum

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Morgan, J. (2012). The multisensory museum, 60(1), 65-77. Retrieved from http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08611201065M
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Title

The multisensory museum

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Author

Jennie, Morgan

Journal

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU

Volume
Issue

1

Start page

65

End page

77

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http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08611201065M

Date

2012-2020/03/08/18:10:13

Abstract

Traditionally, museums have been visual - ‘Do Not Touch’ - spaces. However, interactive and multisensory media are increasingly being used to help pursue wider democratic goals of appealing to new and more diverse audiences. This essay examines how one museum, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow (Scotland), has sought to reconfigure its sensory regimes of display. It discusses the incorporation of multiple sensory logics and queries whether one potential result of such mixings is a kind of sensory disorientation.

Keywords

disorientation, display, Glasgow, multisensory, museum, touch