The Museum as Experience

Editor’s Introduction

Part I. Experiencing Education in the Museum

1. Experience to Encounter: The Museum as Performative Space—Garreth Heidt

2. Teaching and Learning in a University Art Museum: Experiential Education and Communal Spaces—Klare Scarborough and Miranda Clark-Binder

3. Finding Empathy in Art: Healthcare Professionals and the Museum Experience—Florence Gelo

Part II. The Museum as Experiential Space

4. Know Thyself: Identifying with the Museum of Science and Industry's YOU! The Experience—Megan Bayles

5. Museum Constellations: How Dementia-Friendly Programs Build and Strengthen Relationships—Jessica Ruhle

6. Awakening Our Sense of Touch—Patricia Maunder

Part III. The Museum as a Site of Re-Experiencing

7. “A Power in the Place”: Disrupting the Silence and Memorializing Legacy: An Interview with Bryan Stevenson

8. The Iconization of a Monument: The MiQua in Cologne, Between Interpretation and Imagination—Thomas Otten

9. A Labour of Love: (Re)birthing the Babies of South Australia’s Destitute Asylum—Corinne Ball and Nikki Sullivan

Part IV. Within (and Without) Museum Walls

10. Both Ways: Growing Art and Community through Touch—Kristin Tollefson

11. “The Arc of Promise”: Awakening the Heart Through Art—Hildy Tow

12. Crafting Community, Connection, Compassion in a Pandemic—Nikki Sullivan

Further Reading

Index