The Multisensory Museum

In The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, museum expert Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School bring together scholars and museum practitioners from around the world to highlight new trends and untapped opportunities for using such modalities as scent, sound, and touch i...

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In The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, museum expert Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School bring together scholars and museum practitioners from around the world to highlight new trends and untapped opportunities for using such modalities as scent, sound, and touch in museums to offer more immersive experiences and diverse sensory engagement for visually- and otherwise-impaired patrons. Visitor studies describe how different personal and group identities color our cultural consumption and might serve as a compass on museum journeys. Psychologists and educators look at the creation of memories through different types of sensory engagement with objects, and how these memories in turn affect our next cultural experience. An anthropological perspective on the history of our multisensory engagement with ritual and art objects, especially in cultures that did not privilege sight over other senses, allows us a glimpse of what museums might become in the future. Education researchers discover museums as unique educational playgrounds that allow for a variety of learning styles, active and passive exploration, and participatory learning. Designers and architects suggest a framework for thinking about design solutions for a museum environment that invites an intuitive, multisensory and flexible exploration, as well as minimizes physical hurdles.

While attention has been paid to accessibility for the physically-impaired since passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, making buildings accessible is only the first small step in elevating museums to be centers of learning and culture for all members of their communities. This landmark book will help all museums go much further.

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Introduction xiii
Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone
PART I: MUSEUMS AND TOUCH
1 Please DO Touch the Exhibits! Interactions between Visual Imagery and Haptic Perception 3
Simon Lacey and K. Sathian
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Introduction xiii
Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone
PART I: MUSEUMS AND TOUCH
1 Please DO Touch the Exhibits! Interactions between Visual Imagery and Haptic Perception 3
Simon Lacey and K. Sathian
2 “First Hand,” not “First Eye” Knowledge: Bodily Experience in Museums 17
Francesca Bacci and Francesco Pavani
3 Art Making as Multisensory Engagement: Case Studies from The Museum of Modern Art 29
Carrie McGee and Francesca Rosenberg
4 Multisensory Engagement with Real Nature Relevant to Real Life 45
Molly Steinwald, Melissa A. Harding, and Richard V. Piacentini
5 Touch and Narrative in Art and History Museums 61
Nina Levent and D. Lynn McRainey
PART II: MUSEUMS AND SOUND
6 A Brain Guide to Sound Galleries 85
Stephen R. Arnott and Claude Alain
7 Ephemeral, Immersive, Invasive: Sound as Curatorial Theme, 1966–2013 109
Seth Cluett
8 Soundwalking the Museum: A Sonic Journey through the Visual Display 119
Salomé Voegelin
9 The Role of Sensory and Motor Systems in Art Appreciation and Implications for Exhibit Design 131
A. Casile and L. F. Ticini
PART III: SMELL AND TASTE IN MUSEUMS
10 The Forgotten Sense: Using Olfaction in a Museum Context: A Neuroscience Perspective 151
Richard J. Stevenson
11 The Scented Museum 167
Andreas Keller
12 The Museum as Smellscape 177
Jim Drobnick
13 Taste-full Museums: Educating the Senses One Plate at a Time 197
Irina D. Mihalache
PART IV: MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE AND THE SENSES
14 Navigating the Museum 215
Fiona Zisch, Stephen Gage, and Hugo Spiers
15 Museum as an Embodied Experience 239
Juhani Pallasmaa
16 Architectural Design for Living Artifacts 251
Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka
PART V: FUTURE MUSEUMS
17 Multisensory Memories: How Richer Experiences Facilitate Remembering 273
Jamie Ward
18 The Secret of Aesthetics Lies in the Conjugation of the Senses: Reimagining the Museum as a Sensory Gymnasium 285
David Howes
19 Multisensory Mental Simulation and Aesthetic Perception 301
Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Ilaria Bufalari, and Matteo Candidi
20 Islands of Stimulation: Perspectives on the Museum Experience, Present and Future 319
Rebecca McGinnis
21 The Future Landscape of 3D in Museums 331
Samantha Sportun
22 Technology, Senses, and the Future of Museums. A Conversation with Nina Levent, Heather Knight, Sebastian Chan, and Rafael Lozano Hammer 341
Conclusion: Multisensory Art Museums and the Experience of Interconnection. 351
Elisabeth Axel and Kaywin Feldman in conversation with artists and curators
Index 361
About the Contributors 371
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