Introduction
Nina Levent & Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Part I: Museums & Touch
Chapter 1: Please DO Touch the Exhibits! Interactions between
Visual Imagery and Haptic Perception
Simon Lacey & K. Sathian
Chapter 2: "First Hand," not "First-eye" Knowledge: Bodily
Experience in Museums
Francesca Bacci & Francesco Pavani
Chapter 3: Art-Making as Multisensory Engagement: Case Studies from
The Museum of Modern Art
Carrie McGee &Francesca Rosenberg
Chapter 4: Multi-sensory Engagement with Real Nature Relevant to
Real Life
Molly Steinwald, Melissa A. Harding, & Richard V. Piacentini
Chapter 5: Touch and Narrative in Art and History Museums
Nina Levent & Lynn McRainey
Part II: Museums & Sound
Chapter 6: A Brain Guide to Sound Galleries
Stephen R. Arnott & Claude Alain
Chapter 7: Ephemeral, Immersive, Invasive: Sound as Curatorial
Theme 1966-2013
Seth Cluett
Chapter 8: Soundwalking the Museum: A Sonic Journey through the
Visual Display
Salomé Voegelin.
Chapter 9: The Role of Sensory and Motor Systems in Art
Appreciation and Implications for Exhibit Design
A. Casile & L. F. Ticini.
Part III: Smell & Taste in Museums
Chapter 10: The Forgotten Sense: Using Olfaction in a Museum
Context. A Neuroscience Perspective.
Richard Stevenson.
Chapter 11: The Scented Museum
Andreas Keller
Chapter 12: The Museum as Smellscape
Jim Drobnick
Chapter 13: Taste-full Museums: Educating the Senses One Plate at a
Time
Irina Mihalache
Part IV: Museum Architecture & the Senses
Chapter 14: Navigating the Museum
Hugo Spiers, Fiona Zisch & Steven Gage,
Chapter 15: Museum as an Embodied Experience
Juhani Pallasmaa
Chapter 16: Architectural Design for Living Artifacts
Joy Monice Malnar & Frank Vodvarka.
Part V: Future Museums
Chapter 17: Multisensory Memories: How Richer Experiences
Facilitate Remembering
Jamie Ward
Chapter 18: The Secret of Aesthetcis Lies in the Conjugation of the
Senses: Reimagining the Museum as a Sensory Gymnasium
David Howes
Chapter 19: Multisensory Mental Simulation and Aesthetic
Perception
Salvatore M Aglioti, Ilaria Bufalari & Matteo Candidi
Chapter 20: Islands of Stimulation: Perspectives on the Museum
Experience, Present and Future
Rebecca McGinnis
Chapter 21: The Future Landscape of 3D in Museums
Samantha Sportun
Chapter 22: Technology, Senses and the Future of Museums. A
Conversation with Nina Levent,
Heather Knight , Sebastian Chan and Rafael Lozano Hammer.
Conclusion
Index
About the Contributors
Nina Levent is executive director of Art Beyond Sight Collaborative
in New York City, part of Art Education for the Blind. Art Beyond
Sight is dedicated to making the visual arts a vital part of the
lives of visually-impaired people.
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., is professor of neurology at
Harvard Medical School; Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for
Noninvasive Brain Stimulation; Program Director of the
Harvard-Thorndike Clinical Research Unit; and an Attending
Neurologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — all in
Boston. He is a practicing behavioral neurologist and movement
disorders specialist.
From 'Please DO touch the Exhibits' to 'The Museum as Smellscape,'
a new book hitting museum studies shelves this spring explores how
the five sense can be engaged in cultural experiences. The
Multisensory Museum unites museum professionals with psychologists,
neuroscientists, architects and other specialists to examine how
physical interactions influence visitors' understanding of objects
and exhibitions. Special emphasis is placed on discussing how
museums can reach audiences that are sensorially impaired.
*Museum*
This densely researched book not only invites us to see the
potential of multisensory experiences in museums, but also anchors
that invitation in evidence from neuroscience that they matter. The
editors are pioneers in linking these two uncommonly paired
disciplines, and they make a case that is impossible to dismiss. .
. .Invest time in The Multisensory Museum, and I would wager that
generous insights infiltrate how you create meaningful, emotional,
and satisfying experiences for everyone.
*Exhibition*
Curated by Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, is a collection of
essays that “seeks to open a dialogue between modern museum science
and human neuroscience.” It mobilizes experts in various
disciplines – historians, architects, anthropologists, artists,
curators and cognitive and sensory studies’ researchers – to
investigate current strategies in galvanizing audience engagement
with museums. The result is an interesting hybrid: a narrative
discourse with an axiological thrust the employs sensory and
marketing studies’ applicability in the museum context. The case
studies are intelligibly presented, each thematic chapter being
introduced by remarks on the workings of the brain and on how it
decodes information.
*Muse*
The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch,
Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space is a book with a mission: to be a
bridge between two worlds, that of cognitive research and museum
studies…. The book seeks to open a dialogue between modern museum
science and human neuroscience. It aims to highlight today’s best
multisensory practices and reflect on how new research and
technology will influence museums in the future…. Reading the
different visions and experiences in this book broadens your mind.
It makes you realize that there is a world beyond the eyes. It also
makes clear that, like the neuroscientists do, we (museum
researchers) also have to deepen our knowledge about what is
happening inside the brains of our visitors when they encounter our
exhibits, our buildings, and our programs. Cooperating with
cognitive scientists and conducting more experiments within the
museum setting will give us more insight. It is also something we
need to do: If we say we are about learning or reinforcing
cognition in the broader sense we have to connect our experiences
to the existing knowledge about how the brain works.
*Visitor Studies*
I heartily recommend The Multisensory Museum to museum colleagues
everywhere. This book is for anyone interested in learning, the
process of meaning-making, and the potential of museums.
Contributors range from psychologists and neuroscientists to
veteran museum educators. Each offers information and ideas of
immense practical value. The Multisensory Museum offers a highly
informative and inspiring combination of research data, educational
theory, and case studies. This collection will expand most readers’
understanding of the integrated role sensory experiences play when
people find meaning in the material world.
*Linda Duke, Director of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art*
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