Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions
Kathleen McLean and Wendy Pollock, editors
ASTC, 2007
#152
This book is a timely survey of ways museums are incorporating user-contributed content in exhibitions and other media. Overview articles by the editors plus 29 other articles describe a variety of experiments dating from the 1970s to the present—from comment books to sticky notes, video kiosks to blogs. For professional and student alike, Visitor Voices offers inspiration, food for thought, and practical advice. 164 pp, illustrated.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Beginning a Dialogue
Voice of the People
Surviving in Two-Way Traffic
Crafting the Call
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Wendy Pollock
Kathleen McLean
Kathleen McLean and Wendy Pollock
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Talking Back and Talking Together
Talking Back
The Power of the Pencil: Renegotiating the
Museum-Visitor Relationship through Discussion
Exhibits at the Science Museum, London
From Comment to Commitment at the Monterey Bay
Aquarium
Talking Together: Supporting Citizens’ Debates
Asynchronous Conversation: Experiences with a
Video-Response Kiosk
Mapping Many Voices: A Platform for Dialogue
Building Science Buzz
Learning from the Visitors to Slavery in New York
Talk-Back Culture
A Question of Truth: Writing Experience into an
Exhibition
Reflecting on A Question of Truth
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Janet A. Kamien
Ben Gammon and Xerxes Mazda
Jenny Sayre Ramberg
Andrea Bandelli
Barbara Costa
Pasi Karhu,
Mia Marttiini, and Mikko Myllykoski
Bryan Kennedy and Liza Pryor
Richard Rabinowitz
Chris Lawrence
Phaedra Livingstone
Erminia Pedretti and Barbara J. Soren
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Contributing Personal Experience
“They said that the glass is full of friendship”: Visitor
Stories in a Memory Exhibition
What’s Going On? Making Sense of the Vietnam Era
Darkened Waters: Let the People Speak
Hundreds of Greens
Making the "Love Tapes"
Vox
Inviting Visitor Voices into “SFMOMA Artcasts”
Art on Call at the Walker Art Center |
Michael Pearce
Barbara Henry
Mike O'Meara
Kitty Connolly
Wendy Clarke
Liz Keim
Peter Samis
Robin Dowden
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Expressing and Co-Creating
Tossing a Pebble into a Pond: Nurturing Public
Creativity
In Your Face: The People's Portrait Project
Collaborative Storytelling: Expecting the
Unexpected
Do Visitors Question?
Agents of Change: Co-creating Exhibits
RedShiftNow: An Online Agent of Change
Exhibit Commons: Liberty Science Center’s Open
Source Experiment
Building Nanoscape
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Douglas Worts
Gillian McIntyre
Jake Barton
Darcie Fohrman
Julie Bowen
Kevin von Appen
Wayne LaBar
Erin Wilson
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Starting to Listen
Visitors Can Be Trusted
Writing to Learn in Museums
Messages in Bottles
What Visitors’ Voices Can Teach Us
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Liza Pryor
Bill Watson
Richard Toon
Wendy Pollock
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