MUSEUM INTERPRETATION OF ISLAND HISTORY

2018 ◽  
pp. 124-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALLAN RANKIN
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 1175-1178 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F.S. Miles

2022 ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Samet Çevik

Author-related literary tourism places can create attractive elements for visitors who have an inner interest in the life stories of authors. Literary pilgrims place particular emphasis on authenticity level in literary sites. One of the attractive literary places in terms of authenticity, which is also Turkey's first literary museum, is Asiyan Museum where Tevfik Fikret lived between the years 1906-1915. In 2010, the museum underwent a comprehensive restoration. During this restoration, serious archive research was carried out and the house approached the original condition in the period of the 1910s. This study aims to examine the relationships between the authenticity of the place and the museum management mentality, research, and tourists' expectations by pointing out the prominence of authenticity in literary places. Using the interview technique, data were collected from the museum official in March 2018 on subjects such as the history of the museum, interpretation techniques, restoration works.


Author(s):  
Maxim G. Terebilov ◽  

The issue of representing the everyday culture of archaic societies in the museum exposition is quite relevant for modern museology. The culture of everyday life itself plays an important role in studying history of culture as well as the existence of society in different historical periods; therefore its museum interpretation requires particular emphasis. The author reflects on things, which distinguishes historical, long-defunct everyday live culture, artificially created in the exposition of the open-air museum, from the modern, original one, which is being saved by various ecomuseums. In addition, the article identifies three forms of expression of everyday culture, examines the possibilities of its reconstruction, relationship with each other and with the museum itself in the process of creating a general picture of medieval society’s life. Thus, the reconstruction of everyday culture appears to be a strictly historical phenomenon, which is impossible without theatricalization and other creative elements


1970 ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Achiam

The imagination plays an important role in museums, today more than ever. Visitors use their repositories of imagination or repertoires to make sense of their encounters with objects and exhibits. In this article, I argue that this initial meaning making, rather than being the end goal of museum interpretation, should be thought of as the point of departure for further, more scientific meaning making. I present a framework developed by Colette Dufresne-Tassé et al. (2006) and show how it can be used to identify the variety of visitor repertoires at work in their imagination processes. I argue that becoming familiar with commonly occurring repertoires is necessary for exhibition designers in order for museums to continue to take their interpretive responsibility seriously, and I discuss how such a familiarisation may affect museum practice. I conclude with some perspectives on the implications of the framework for museum research. 


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