Visiting the Art Museum
A Journey Toward Participation
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Beschreibung
Visiting the Art Museum: A Journey Toward Participation is a book about the visitor experience. It is written as a companion for visitors to and inside the art museum. The volume engages readers in transforming a common experience, the museum visit, into a sophisticated epistemological inquiry. The study of the visitor experience through an epistemological approach consists of the untangling of the academic disciplines that study and inform each step of this experience: urban studies, architecture, design, art history, art education, and nonprofit management. This journey follows a transformative bottom-up trajectory from experiential to epistemological, and, finally, reveals itself as empowering. The book unfolds as an edited volume, with chapters by different authors who are enthusiastic scholars in each discipline and addresses undergraduate students as citizens, master’s students as professionals, and scholars as teachers and researchers. Each reader will discover a kaleidoscopic world made of ideas, values, and possibilities for participation.
Presents the complexity of epistemological inquiry in a readable tone and with organic purpose Presents an overview of the Portland Art Museum (PAM) grounding a theoretical reflection in a concrete example Touches upon a variety of case studies from Europe, the United States, East Asia, and the Middle East
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Eleonora Redaelli
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museum studies pedagogy philosophy of practices Portland Art Museum (PAM) epistemology urban design user experience
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“Visiting the Art Museum is a sensitive and conceptually coherent contribution. It reinforces the idea that museums are hybrid institutions operating in complex ecologies shaped by philanthropy, public policy, volunteering, and community relations. This makes the volume particularly relevant for readers in civil society and third sector studies, where questions of social change, participation, and public value are inseparable.” (Cássio Aoqui and Davidson Panis Kaseker, Voluntas, Vol. 37 (2), April, 2026)
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