Experimental Museology

Marianne Achiam has a PhD in science education, and is Associate Professor at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research is concerned with how the science of scientists becomes embodied in science education and communication contexts (e.g. museums) to eventually become the science of the public. Michael Haldrup is Professor (wsr) in visual culture and performance design at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has written extensively about the performance turn in cultural/social theory, especially with regard to heritage and leisure/tourism studies, including Performing tourist places (Ashgate, 2004) and Tourism, performance and the everyday (Routledge, 2009) and about design and experience-based communication. Kirsten Drotner is Professor of media studies at the University of Southern Denmark and director of two national R&D programmes DREAM and Our Museum. Her research interests include children’s media and information literacies, digital co-creation and creative learning, and digital museum communication.

• Introduction: For an experimental museology Michael Haldrup Pedersen, Kirsten Drotner and Marianne Achiam Part 1: Institutions 1. Experimental museology in the age of experience Sarah Kenderdine 2. Museological organizations in Brazil: Between doors and grids Wescley Xavier, Diana Castro and Vanessa Brulon 3. Designing astrophysics exhibitions for gender inclusion Line Nicolaisen, Marianne Achiam and Tina Ibsen 4. Experimental innovation in museums: Encouraging creativity, building confidence and creating social value Haitham Eid Part 2: Representations 5. Advocacy of shock: Animating the museum, slowing down the visitors Mieke Bal 6. Telling the whole story: Researching, curating and designing virtual architectural experiences Palmyre Pierroux, Birgitte Sauge, Rolf Steier, Anne Qvale 7. User-generated content: A way forward for museums? Barbara Thiele 8. Reversing museumification: From colonial heterotropics to global heritage aesthetics in Roundhay’s Tropical World, Leeds. Rodanthi Tzanelli Part 3: Users 9. Across the doorway: Post-critical museology from a closed university museum Gianluigi Mangiapane and Erika Grasso 10. Museography and performativity Rodrigo Tisi Paredes 11. Representing 'others': Cultural strategies for critique and rights to belong Andrea Witcomb 12. Human rights, social justice and museological practice Jenifer J. Carter 13. Experimental Museology: Implications and Perspectives Kirsten Drotner, Michael Haldrup Pedersen and Marianne Achiam