scholarly journals Integration of Handheld Guides in Museums: The Case of Lithuania’s Art Museums

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Milda Rutkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Successful Integration

Summary The most common technological device found in organisations of cultural heritage is a handheld guide. This device can simultaneously perform several functions, and its integration in permanent expositions has significance both for the operation of organisations of cultural heritage and experience of visitors when they visit a museum or a gallery. It should be noted that art museums and galleries encounter a task to present often static and difficult to understand at first sight works of art in an interesting fashion. Therefore, in this study, the main functions of a handheld guide as a technological device as well as its benefits, problems, and application in art museums are analysed. In the first part of the study, various functions of handheld guides, their importance, the meaning produced for the organisation of cultural heritage, and experience of a visitor are analysed based on scientific literature. Problems of integration of handheld guides and strategic steps that should be taken to ensure a successful integration process are reviewed. In the second part, four cases of Lithuanian art museums are presented. All museums that participated in the survey were analysed by collecting observational data, communicating with the managers of the organisations, and analysing the experience of museum visitors using the handheld guide. Scientific literature presented in the article substantiates the importance of handheld guides in museums and possible problems of integration of such devices. The study conducted in Lithuanian art museums reveals the fact that handheld guides are significant devices that help improve the experience of a museum visitor, but it is also observed that handheld guides have not yet become an integral part of a visit to a Lithuanian art museum.

scholarly journals Exhibiting Inclusion: An Examination of Race, Ethnicity, and Museum Participation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Olivares ◽  
Jaclyn Piatak
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Race Ethnicity

AbstractMuseum visitors are not reflective of the diversity present in communities around the nation. In this study, we investigate the racial and ethnic diversity of art museum participants as well as the potential motivations and barriers to visiting a museum. Using the General Social Survey, we examine race and ethnicity and arts participation in the USA. We find Black individuals are less likely to attend an art museum than white individuals. Certain motivations and barriers to participating may explain part of the lack of diversity. We find Black and Latinx individuals are motivated to participate in art museums for cultural heritage reasons more than white individuals, but race and ethnicity are unrelated to perceiving admission fees as a barrier. This research highlights the urgency in the field to make museums more inclusive.

scholarly journals Social Media, Selfie Culture and Art Museums: Shifting Behavior in Art Museum Visitors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hariyanto .
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
The Self ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Works Of Art

Smartphone users have a new habit of taking selfies then posting to Instagram or Facebook which will then be liked and commented on by their friends. This selfie culture influences the visitors of fine arts exhibitions and museums driving the urge to take a selfie in front of the work on display. Taking a selfie in front of a work of art seems to show the self-expression and self-identity of the performer. Selfie photos have similarities with self-portrait paintings by famous painters from the Reneisance era to the present. Selfie culture has influenced the behavior of millennials in appreciating works of art. Some applications that support selfie culture have been developed and gives smartphone users the opportunity to use it to create new interpretations of images. This article discusses the shift in exhibit behavior at the fine arts museum which is shown through photos uploaded on social media. Keywords: social media, selfies, art museum

scholarly journals Collecting Pandemic Phenomena: Reflections on Rapid Response Collecting and the Art Museum

Collections ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 155019062098084
Author(s):  
Sandro Debono
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Development Methodology ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Potential Use

Rapid Response Collecting has been a most apt methodology with which to document the COVID-19 pandemic for an increasing number of museums. As the phenomenon unfolded across the globe, museums searched for and head-hunted the truth-revealing objects that could tell the stories and histories of the present to current and future generations. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic took Rapid Response Collecting to a higher level. A methodology originally conceived for a sporadic phenomenon happening within a specific context during the early years of the 21st century gained much more traction almost overnight. This paper shall make a case for a better understanding of the potential use and application of Rapid Response Collecting by art museums. It shall look into the defining values of this collections development methodology and how these can be applied and adopted when acquiring works of art. In doing so, it shall seek to understand to what extent the mainstream version of Rapid Response Collecting can be adapted for the needs, purposes and requirements of the art museum.

The role of ambiances and aesthetics on millennials’ museum visiting behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyowon Hyun ◽  
Jungkun Park ◽  
Tianbao Ren ◽  
Hyunjin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Visitor Satisfaction ◽  
Hedonic Value ◽  
Utilitarian Value ◽  
Atmospheric Factors

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish a framework for millennials’ museum visiting behaviour and to explore the moderating effects of aesthetics and ambience for visiting art museums. This study uses the Stimulus–Organism–Response (S–O–R) model (Mehrabian and Russell, 1974) in order to confirm the relationship among variables. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected using online surveys from millennial art museum visitors who had visited a museum within three months. In all, 287 responses were collected. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse the model. Findings Korean millennial visitors pursue hedonic value rather than utilitarian value when they visit art museums. It turns out that hedonic value accelerates visitor satisfaction and promotes visitor loyalty more than utilitarian value in the art museum setting. Both ambiance and aesthetics play stimulating roles in the art museum context and moderate the relationships among visitor-perceived value, satisfaction and loyalty. Utilitarian values are identified as unimportant elements for young Korean museumgoers. Practical implications Ambiance and aesthetic factors play important roles in promoting art museum visits. An art museum may elevate its atmospheric factors by emphasising the visit’s fun value (i.e. hedonic value) for millennials. Originality/value This study expands on previous studies concerning conceptualization of multidimensional constructs of millennials’ value for experience of arts museums in terms of aesthetics and ambiance. The results also confirm the value of the S–O–R framework in an art museum context.

scholarly journals The Regional Art Museum as a Subject of Social Communication

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
В.А. Саркисов
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Resource Potential ◽  
Social Success ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Goals And Objectives

Цель настоящей статьи – выявление сущности субъектности регионального художественного музея через рассмотрение его как универсального культурного феномена, проявляющего универсальные общеродовые признаки в различных социокультурных условиях. Исследование выполнено на материалах российских и зарубежных исследований в сфере культурологии, истории и социологии. Автором применены деятельностный, структурно-функциональный и семиотический подходы. Выявлены элементы, составляющие субъектность регионального художественного музея: музейные коллекции, штат сотрудников, совокупность посетителей, уникальность музея, его участие в культурной политике, реконструкция программирующих свойств культуры на глобальном, национальном и региональном уровнях коммуникативного взаимодействия. Изучение обозначенной темы позволяет сделать вывод о том, что сущность субъектности регионального художественного музея состоит в осуществлении социальных инвестиций в доступной только ему форме усиления ценности сохраняемого им культурного наследия региона. The aim of the study is to identify the essence of the subjectivity of the regional art museum by considering it as a universal cultural phenomenon that manifests universal common generic characters in various sociocultural conditions. The study is based on materials from Russian and foreign studies in the field of cultural studies, history, and sociology. The methodological basis was the activity, structural-functional, and semiotic approaches. The author explores the ultimate state of the museum in the system of cultural life, indicating that in any social conditions its essence consists not only in the preservation of collections, but also in their actualization through educational and sociocultural activities. The totalityof museum visitors is interpreted as one of the components of its subjectivity, along with collections and staff. The number of visitors depends on the uniqueness of the museum, which is also an integral part of subjectivity. It is determined that the activities of the museum cannot be fully tied to the goals and objectives of cultural policy, since museum collections potentially have a comprehensive value. Participation in cultural policy therefore acts only as an element constituting the subjectivity of the museum. The author indicates that an important task of the work of the regional art museum is to popularize the culture of the region at the national and global levels, realizing which, such a museum becomes the subject of world culture. It is emphasized that the museum provides a communicative connection between generations, while acting as a subject organizing its own metacommunicative space. In this space, cultural meanings are reconstructed and the dialectical tension of communication is allowed. It has been established that the museum realizes the resource potential of its collections through value differentiation of the results of artistic creation and art, as well as by placing cultural heritage in relevant aspects of social discourse. The author concludes that the essence of the subjectivity of the regional art museum consists in making social investments in the form (accessible exclusively to this institution) of strengthening the value of the cultural heritage of the region that it preserves. Regional and national cultural policies normatively and strategically regulate the sociocultural activities of the regional art museum, but do not limit its subjectivity in social communication and activities. At the same time, the subjectivity of the museum largely determines its image and social success.

Why it is Necessary to Revise the Standards of Exhibition Lighting

2019 ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Alexei V. Bogdanov ◽  
Vladimir A. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Artificial Lighting ◽  
Works Of Art

In the modern world, one of the main functions of museums is to organize the preservation of pieces of art and arrange their presentation to museum visitors. Since the modern exhibition is based on the artificial lighting, it is necessary to properly arrange this lighting; otherwise, it can negatively affect the safety of museum pieces. The article sets out the views on the criteria of professional lighting of works of art, as it is always a compromise between the custodians and the lighting engineers. The authors also attempt to disclose the processes of organizing museum lighting and give a generalized description of the standards and rules, which serve as a basis to realize this lighting. The main reasons for the need to rethink these standards and rules (and even to revise them), in connection with the emergence of new LED sources, have been outlined.

Art mediator as a participant of art communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
K.I. Shimanskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Individual Approach ◽  
Participatory Practice

Artistic communication is the interaction between the viewer and the work of art. Its success is the highest goal of an art mediator, whose role is to establish and maintain a dialogue between the subjects of artistic communication. n this regard, art mediation is understood by the authors of the article as a participatory practice that teaches visitors of art museums and galleries the language of art and its interpretation. This view is confirmed by a review of the concept of artistic communication in scientific literature, as well as an analysis of the practice of art mediation, its basic principles (such as openness, polyphony and the use of an individual approach by an art mediator) are revealed on the example of the Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale «Negotiators» in the Krasnoyarsk Museum Center.

Volumetric Video in Augmented Reality Applications for Museological Narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Néill O’dwyer ◽  
Emin Zerman ◽  
Gareth W. Young ◽  
Aljosa Smolic ◽  
Siobhán Dunne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Live Action ◽  
Capture Technique

Cross-reality technologies are quickly establishing themselves as commonplace platforms for presenting objects of historical, scientific, artistic, and cultural interest to the public. In this space, augmented reality (AR) is notably successful in delivering cultural heritage applications, including architectural and environmental heritage reconstruction, exhibition data management and representation, storytelling, and exhibition curation. Generally, it has been observed that the nature of information delivery in applications created for narrating exhibitions tends to be informative and formal. Here we report on the assessment of a pilot scene for a prototype AR application that attempts to break this mold by employing a humorous and playful mode of communication. This bespoke AR experience harnessed the cutting-edge live-action capture technique of volumetric video to create a digital tour guide that playfully embellished the museological experience of the museum visitors. This applied research article consists of measuring, presenting, and discussing the appeal, interest, and ease of use of this ludic AR storytelling strategy mediated via AR technology in a cultural heritage context.

Migrants and the Labor Market: The Role and Tasks of Adult Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Tetyana Kloubert ◽  
Chad Hoggan
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Educators ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Successful Integration

The process of migration to a new country brings with it a host of challenges, and therefore also learning needs. Some countries have systems in place to facilitate the transition of migrants into society, often including adult education programs. Those programs, however, cannot be effective if blithely designed in ignorance of the interrelationship between established systems for facilitating integration and the experiences of migrants during the integration process. Focusing on the transition into the labor market and drawing on the expertise of adult educators who work in these systems in Germany, this article explores several stumbling blocks that make a successful integration for migrants more difficult and describes three strategies to address them: challenging the logic of the labor market, dealing with failure, and acknowledging multiple forms of discrimination. The analysis of Germany can provide insights that are useful in other national contexts.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document