Skip to main content
COMMUNITY:
Reference Materials

Interactivity and audience experience in the modern museum: discussing findings from case study on the ‘High Arctic’ immersive installation, National Maritime Museum, London

January 1, 2012 | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks, Exhibitions
Museums are shifting from being object and collection centered, towards a focus on space, affect and audience by producing multi-dimensional spatial non-lineal experiences. Interactivity is used unquestionably to verify this shift. Through the findings of a case study the ‘High Arctic’, a temporary exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, the paper will discuss how the museum interprets and practices the notion of interactivity. Through examining the multiplicity of museum with the focus being on process, the possibility of opening and creating new models of experience can be evaluated. Following Deleuze and Guattari, I suggest that this shift implies ‘continuous becoming’ rather than ‘being’, which can occur by means of affect (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987).

TEAM MEMBERS

  • Irida Ntalla
    Author
    City University, School of Arts
  • Citation

    Resource Type: Mass Media Article | Conference Proceedings
    Discipline: Education and learning science
    Audience: Museum/ISE Professionals | Evaluators
    Environment Type: Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Conferences | Exhibitions | Museum and Science Center Exhibits

    If you would like to edit a resource, please email us to submit your request.