Museum Media

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.

• List of Illustrations ixEditor xiiiGeneral Editors xivContributors xvAcknowledgments xviiGeneral Editors’ Preface to Museum Studies and the International Handbooks of Museum Studies xixMuseum Media: An Introduction xxviiMichelle HenningPart I The Museum as Medium 11 Museums and Media Archaeology: An Interview with Wolfgang Ernst 3Michelle Henning2 Media Archaeology of/in the Museum 23Andrew Hoskins and Amy Holdsworth3 Museums and the Challenge of Transmediation: The Case of Bristol’s Wildwalk 43Nils Lindahl Elliot4 Mediatized Memory: Video Testimonies in Museums 69Steffi de Jong5 Visible and Invisible Institutions: Cinema in the French Art Museum 95Jenny Chamarette6 The Museum as TV Producer: Televisual Form in Curating, Commissioning, and Public Programming 121Maeve Connolly7 SimKnowledge: What Museums Can Learn from Video Games 145Seth GiddingsPart II Mediation and Immersion 1658 The Life of Things 167Ivan Gaskell9 Lighting Practices in Art Galleries and Exhibition Spaces, 1750–1850 191Alice Barnaby10 There’s Something in the Air: Sound in the Museum 215Rupert Cox11 Aesthetics and Atmosphere in Museums: A Critical Marketing Perspective 235Brigitte Biehl‐Missal and Dirk vom Lehn12 Museums, Interactivity, and the Tasks of “Exhibition Anthropology” 259Erkki Huhtamo13 Keeping Objects Live 279Fiona CandlinPart III Design and Curating in the Media Age 30314 Total Media 305Peter Higgins15 From Object to Environment: The Recent History of Exhibitions in Germany and Austria 327Bettina Habsburg‐Lothringen [Translated by Mark Miscovich]16 Museums as Spaces of the Present: The Case for Social Scenography 349Beat Hachler [Translated by Niall Hoskin]17 (Dis)playing the Museum: Artifacts, Visitors, Embodiment, and Mediality 371Karin Harrasser18 Transforming the Natural History Museum in London: Isotype and the New Exhibition Scheme 389Sue Perks19 Embodiment and Place Experience in Heritage Technology Design 419Luigina CiolfiPart IV Extending the Museum 44720 Open and Closed Systems: New Media Art in Museums and Galleries 449Beryl Graham21 Diffused Museums: Networked, Augmented, and Self‐Organized Collections 473John Bell and Jon Ippolito22 Mobile in Museums: From Interpretation to Conversation 499Nancy Proctor23 Moving Out: Museums, Mobility, and Urban Spaces 527Mark W. Rectanus24 Beyond the Glass Case: Museums as Playgrounds for Replication 553Petra Tjitske Kalshoven25 With and Without Walls: Photographic Reproduction and the Art Museum 577Michelle Henning26 The Elastic Museum: Cinema Within and Beyond 603Haidee WassonIndex 629