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Children are one of the major audiences for museums, but their
visits are often seen solely from the point of view of museum
learning. In Snapshots of Museum Experience, Will Buckingham draws
upon Elee Kirk's research amongst child visitors to the Oxford
University Museum of Natural History, to take a different approach.
Using a method of photo-elicitation with four-and five-year-old
child visitors to the museum, the book investigates children's
experience of the museum, and in the process undermines many of our
assumptions about the interests, needs and demands of child museum
visitors. Drawing together the fields of museum studies and
childhood studies, the book considers children as active creators
of the museum visit. It investigates the way that children navigate
and take control of the physical and social spaces of the museum,
finding their own idiosyncratic pathways through these spaces. It
also explores how elements of the museum 'light up', becoming
salient to the child visitor. Finally, it investigates how children
make sense through intellectually and imaginatively engaging with
these elements of the museum visit. Snapshots of Museum Experience
gives a unique insight into the sheer diversity of children's
museum experiences and discusses how museums might cater more
successfully to the needs of their child visitors. As such, it
should be of great interest to academics, researchers and students
in the fields of museum studies, visitor studies and childhood
studies. It should also be essential reading for museum educators
and exhibition designers.
Children are one of the major audiences for museums, but their
visits are often seen solely from the point of view of museum
learning. In Snapshots of Museum Experience, Will Buckingham draws
upon Elee Kirk's research amongst child visitors to the Oxford
University Museum of Natural History, to take a different approach.
Using a method of photo-elicitation with four-and five-year-old
child visitors to the museum, the book investigates children's
experience of the museum, and in the process undermines many of our
assumptions about the interests, needs and demands of child museum
visitors. Drawing together the fields of museum studies and
childhood studies, the book considers children as active creators
of the museum visit. It investigates the way that children navigate
and take control of the physical and social spaces of the museum,
finding their own idiosyncratic pathways through these spaces. It
also explores how elements of the museum 'light up', becoming
salient to the child visitor. Finally, it investigates how children
make sense through intellectually and imaginatively engaging with
these elements of the museum visit. Snapshots of Museum Experience
gives a unique insight into the sheer diversity of children's
museum experiences and discusses how museums might cater more
successfully to the needs of their child visitors. As such, it
should be of great interest to academics, researchers and students
in the fields of museum studies, visitor studies and childhood
studies. It should also be essential reading for museum educators
and exhibition designers.
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