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Imaginary museums: What mainstream museums can learn from them?

The world is full of museums that don’t exist fully in three dimensions – museums described in words or drawn on paper; museum catalogues; museums on the web. There are also many museums that are the creation of artists, novelists and poets, and so have a strong thread of imagination running through...

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מחבר ראשי:	Morris, Rachel
פורמט:	Article ou chapitre numérique
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יצא לאור:	MIDAS 2015
נושאים:	imaginary museums imagination experience metaphor museus imaginários imaginação experiência metáfora
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:midas_643 https://doi.org/10.4000/midas.643 urn:doi:10.4000/midas.643 en https://journals.openedition.org/midas/643 2015-03-13T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/iajq https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Imaginary museums: What mainstream museums can learn from them? MIDAS CIDEHUS - Centro Interdisciplinar de História Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2182-9543 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/midas Morris, Rachel imaginary museums imagination experience metaphor museus imaginários imaginação experiência metáfora The world is full of museums that don’t exist fully in three dimensions – museums described in words or drawn on paper; museum catalogues; museums on the web. There are also many museums that are the creation of artists, novelists and poets, and so have a strong thread of imagination running through them. The latter cast an interesting light on ‘real’ museums and compel us to ask: What is it that the metaphor of a museum enables writers and artists to say? The question is doubly interesting because there is a long history of these 'imaginary’ museums created by artists. This paper suggests that there are five qualities of museums that writers and artists tune into: the power of objects to take us back in time; the apparent ‘alive-ness’ of objects; the power of collections (which is different to the power of individual objects); the ability of museums to shape the world and tell us stories about it; and the role of museums as powerful metaphors through which we can talk about loss, fear and yearnings for the past. So writers and artists find museums powerfully imaginative places; but then so do visitors. Visitor research shows that visitors come to museums ready to use their imaginations. So my question is: Do ‘real’ museums do enough to work with the visitors’ imaginations? Or, to put it another way, Do enough museums think that the visitors’ imagination – and indeed their own - is relevant to the museum experience? It should be. It is. O mundo está cheio de museus que não existem plenamente em três dimensões – museus descritos por palavras ou desenhados sobre papel; catálogos de museus; museus em rede. Há também muitos museus que são criação de artistas, romancistas e poetas e que, como tal, são percorridos por uma poderosa linha de imaginação. Estes lançam uma reveladora luz sobre os museus “reais” e levam-nos a perguntar: o que é que a metáfora do museu suscita a escritores e artistas? A questão é duplamente interessante, na medida em que é longa a história destes museus “imaginários” criados por artistas. O presente artigo sugere que há cinco características dos museus que os escritores e artistas tendem a focar: a capacidade dos objectos para nos fazer recuar no tempo; a aparente “vida” dos objectos; o poder das colecções (que é distinto do poder individual dos objectos); a capacidade dos museus para configurar o mundo e para nos contar histórias sobre ele; e o papel dos museus como potentes metáforas, através das quais é possível falar sobre os sentimentos de perda, medo e anseio em relação ao passado. Nesse sentido, escritores e artistas encaram os museus como lugares poderosamente imaginativos; e o mesmo acontece com os visitantes. Os estudos de público mostram que os visitantes chegam aos museus preparados para utilizar a sua imaginação. Sendo assim, a minha questão é: farão os museus “reais” o suficiente para mobilizar a imaginação dos visitantes? Ou, dito de outra forma: haverá museus suficientes a considerar que a imaginação dos visitantes, em si mesma, é relevante para a experiência museológica? Deveria ser. É.
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description	The world is full of museums that don’t exist fully in three dimensions – museums described in words or drawn on paper; museum catalogues; museums on the web. There are also many museums that are the creation of artists, novelists and poets, and so have a strong thread of imagination running through them. The latter cast an interesting light on ‘real’ museums and compel us to ask: What is it that the metaphor of a museum enables writers and artists to say? The question is doubly interesting because there is a long history of these 'imaginary’ museums created by artists. This paper suggests that there are five qualities of museums that writers and artists tune into: the power of objects to take us back in time; the apparent ‘alive-ness’ of objects; the power of collections (which is different to the power of individual objects); the ability of museums to shape the world and tell us stories about it; and the role of museums as powerful metaphors through which we can talk about loss, fear and yearnings for the past. So writers and artists find museums powerfully imaginative places; but then so do visitors. Visitor research shows that visitors come to museums ready to use their imaginations. So my question is: Do ‘real’ museums do enough to work with the visitors’ imaginations? Or, to put it another way, Do enough museums think that the visitors’ imagination – and indeed their own - is relevant to the museum experience? It should be. It is.
author	Morris, Rachel
author_facet	Morris, Rachel
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title	Imaginary museums: What mainstream museums can learn from them?
title_short	Imaginary museums: What mainstream museums can learn from them?
title_full	Imaginary museums: What mainstream museums can learn from them?
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