The exhibition – a place of limited dialogue
Vol.1,No.1(2012)
Abstract
Keywords:
museum; museology; exhibition; visitor; dialogue; communication; object; visualization; theatre
Pages:
14–17
"Dialogic museum" has many meanings. Who communicates with whom? Rarely the curator directly with the visitor, maybe the visitors among themselves, inspired by the exhibition. Can the use of interactive exhibition elements be called a real "dialogue" or is it simply a more modern and more active means than a text which evokes also a kind of "response"? The main issue, however, is not a dialogue but a one way communication from the curator to the visitors through the exhibition; a feedback is rarely possible. Such an unilateral and indirect communication of information is dilated in the time since the exhibition comes to life only when it is visited, maybe years after its creation. Can we call this a "second degree communication"?
museum; museology; exhibition; visitor; dialogue; communication; object; visualization; theatre
14–17