Table of Contents: Museum materialities :

Other Authors:	Dudley, Sandra H.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Subjects:	Museums > Social aspects Museums > Psychological aspects Museum visitors Museum exhibits > Social aspects Museum exhibits > Psychological aspects Material culture > Social aspects Material culture > Psychological aspects Senses and sensation > Social aspects Emotions > Social aspects Aesthetics > Social aspects

Table of Contents:

Museum materialities : objects, sense and feeling / Sandra H. Dudley
Photographs and history : emotion and materiality / Elizabeth Edwards
Remembering the dead by affecting the living : the case of a miniature model of Treblinka / Andrea Witcomb
Touching the Buddha : encounters with a charismatic object / Christopher Wingfield
Contemporary art : an immaterial practice? / Helen Pheby
The eyes have it : eye movements and the debatable differences between original objects and reproductions / Helen Saunderson, Alice Cruickshank and Eugene McSorley
Experiencing materiality in the museum : artefacts re-made / Alexander Stevenson
Virginia Woolf's glasses : material encounters in the literary/artistic house museum / Nuala Hancock
When ethnographies enter art galleries / Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
Engaging the material world : object knowledge and Australian journeys / Kirsten Wehner and Martha Sear
Watch your step : embodiment and encounter at Tate Modern / Helen Rees Leahy
Reconsidering digital surrogates : toward a viewer-orientated model of the gallery experience / Bradley L. Taylor
Dancing pot and pregnant jar? : on ceramics, metaphors and creative labels / Wing Yan Vivian Ting
Myth, memory and the senses in the Churchill Museum / Sheila Watson
Dreams and wishes : the multi-sensory museum space / Viv Golding
Making meaning beyond display / Chris Dorsett
Authenticity and object relations in contemporary performance art / Klare Scarborough
Afterword / Howard Morphy.