Exhibitions as Research

Exhibitions as Research contends that museums would be more attractive to both researchers and audiences if we consider exhibitions as "knowledge-in-the-making" rather than platforms for disseminating already-established insights.

Autorentext

Peter Bjerregaard holds a PhD in anthropology and works as program manager at Danish Museum for Science and Technology. Until recently he was senior adviser of exhibitions at Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. His recent interest has been on exhibitions as a particular mode of research and in developing experimental approaches to exhibition-making that allow research to materialize in non-textual forms. He has been project leader and curator for a number of exhibitions, among them COLLAPSE - human being in an unpredictable world and Letting go. Together with Anders Emil Rasmussen and Tim Flohr Sørensen, he edited Materalities of Passing: Explorations in Transformation, Transition and Transience (2016).

Klappentext

Exhibitions as Research contends that museums would be more attractive to both researchers and audiences if we consider exhibitions as "knowledge-in-the-making" rather than platforms for disseminating already-established insights.

Zusammenfassung
Exhibitions as Research contends that museums would be more attractive to both researchers and audiences if we consider exhibitions as "knowledge-in-the-making" rather than platforms for disseminating already-established insights.

Inhalt

Introduction: Exhibitions as research - Peter Bjerregaard

Part I Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Chapter 1 Sketches for a methodology on exhibition research - Henrik Treimo

Chapter 2 Joining transdisciplinary forces to revive the past: Establishing a Viking Garden at the Natural History Museum, Oslo - Anneleen Kool and Axel Dalberg Poulsen

Chapter 3 Ethnography, exhibition practices and undiscipined encounters: The generative work of amulets in London - Nathalia Brichet and Frida Hastrup

Part II Sensing knowledge

Chapter 4 Exhibitions as philosophical carpentry: On object-oriented exhibitio- making - Adam Bencard

Chapter 5 Museum objects in the marketplace - Kari K. Aarrestad

Chapter 6 Exhibition-making as aesthetic enquiry - Peter Bjerregaard

Chapter 7 Object-spaces? Sensory engagements and museum experiments - Elizabeth Hallam

Part III Collaborating with audiences

Chapter 8 Exhibitions, engagement and provocation: From Future Animals to Guerilla Archaeology - Jacqui Mulville

Chapter 9 Developing and promoting research in a museum thirdspace: Breaking barriers where people walk - Ellen T. Bøe, Hege I. Hollund, Grete Lillehammer, Bente Ruud, Paula U. Sandvik

Chapter 10 Visitor dialogue and participation as knowledge generating practices in exhibition work: What can museum experts learn from it? - Guro Jørgensen

Chapter 11 How the exhibition became co-produced: Attunement and participatory ontologies for museums - Helen Graham