Touch in museums : policy and practice in object handling / edited by Helen J. Chatterjee ; book consultants, Sally MacDonald, David Prytherch, Guy Noble.

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English
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English edition.
Published/​Created
  • Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008.
  • ©2008
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xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "The value of touch and object handling in museums is little understood, despite the overwhelming weight of anecdotal evidence which confirms the benefits of physical interaction with objects. Touch in Museums presents a ground-breaking overview of object handling from both historical and scientific perspectives. The book aims to establish a framework for understanding the role of object handling for learning, enjoyment, and health. The broad range of essays included explores the many different contexts for object handling, not only within the museum, but extending beyond it to hospitals, schools and the wider community. The combination of theoretical analysis, policy assessment and detailed case material make Touch in Museums invaluable reading for students and professionals of museology or cultural heritage."--Publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Machine derived contents note: Contents
    • List of Illustrations
    • List of Contributors ; Introduction / Helen Chatterjee
    • Part I: What Do We Mean By Touch? 1. Museums, Modernity and the Class Politics of Touching Objects / Fiona Candlin ; 2. Making Sense of Touch / Charles Spence and Alberto Gallace ; 3. The Two Sides of Touch: Sensing and Feeling / Francis McGlone ; 4. Emotional Touch: A Neuroscientific Overview / Hugo Critchley
    • Part II: New Technologies for Enhancing Object Interpretation ; 5. The Use of Haptic Interfaces in Haptics Research / Christos Giachritsis ; 6. Tactual Explorations: A Tactile Interpretation of a Museum Exhibit through Tactile Art Works and Augmented Reality / Isil Onol ; 7. CONTACT: Digital Modelling of Object and Process in Artefact Teaching / Roger Doonan and Michael Boyd ; 8. Out of Touch? Digital Technologies, Ethnographic Objects and Sensory Orders / Graeme Were ; 9. A Versatile Large-Scale Multimodal VR System for Cultural Heritage Visualization / Celine Loscos ; 10. Touch Technologies and Museum Access / Robert Zimmer, Janis Jefferies and Mandayam Srinivasan
    • Part III: Touch and Memory ; 11. A Memory for Touch: The Cognitive Psychology of Tactile Memory / Alberto Gallace and Charles Spence ; 12. Aesthetics of Touch Among the Elderly / Michael Rowlands ; 13. Reminiscence: Recent Work at the British Museum / Laura Phillips ; 14. Getting a Handle on the Past: The Use of Objects in Reminiscence Work / Bernie Arigho ; Part IV: Therapeutic Approaches to Touch ; 15. Enrichment Programmes in Hospitals: Using Museum Loan Boxes in University College London Hospital / Guy Noble and Helen Chatterjee ; 16. See, Touch and Enjoy: Newham University Hospital’s Nostalgia Room / Jackie O’Sullivan ; 17. Measuring the “Difficult to Measure” / Caroline Selai ; Part V: Knowledge Transfer in Object Handling. 18. How Accessible Are Museums Today? / Marcus Weisen ; 19. The British Museum in Pentonville Prison: Dismantling Barriers Through Touch and Handling / Jane Samuels ; 20. The Amenable Object: Working with Diaspora Communities through a Psychoanalysis of Touch / Bernadette Lynch ; The Future. 21. Touch and the Value of Object Handling: Final Conclusions for a New Sensory Museology / Devorah Romanek and Bernadette Lynch
    • Index.
    Other title(s)
    Policy and practice in object handling
    ISBN
    • 9781847882394 ((cloth))
    • 1847882390 ((cloth))
    • 9781847882387 ((pbk.))
    • 1847882382 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2008031218
    OCLC
    237402381
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