Might the museology be a part of neurosciences?

Vol.5,No.1(2016)

Dorota Folga-Januszewska

https://doi.org/10.5817/MuB2016-1-1

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/135576

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Abstract
The 1990s as well as the first decade after the year 2000 have brought numerous attempts of revisiting the fundamental questions related to the reasons for creating art, and the way museums use art for visualizing and planning exhibitions. The real support in these researches was found among neurocognitivists, who, like prof. Semir Zeki, analysed human brain' activity in museums context. This article reports how neuroesthetic was born and developing through art experience, and how museums have been changing when faced with these new approaches. What was noticed by John Onians in his Neuroarthistory, that "neuroscience also made it not just possible, but necessary, to bring back together things long treated as separate – the mind and the body, the sensory system and the motor system, cognition and the viscera" – changed practice in contemporary museums. Conclusion of this text is that the process of "museologising" of the world, we perceive nowadays as a global phenomena, has roots in neuroesthetic experience, transferring visitors to a tangible and multi-sensual world, quite different then virtual and digital everyday practice.

Keywords:
museum; museology; neurosciences; neuroaesthetic; neuromuseology

Pages:
5–14
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