Overview

What if museums could harness the emotional and intellectual connections people have to personal and everyday objects to create richer visitor experiences? In this book, Elizabeth Wood and Kiersten Latham present the Object Knowledge Framework, a tool for using objects to connect museum visitors to themselves, to others, and to their world. They discuss the key concepts underpinning our lived experience of objects and how museums can learn from them. Then they walk readers through concrete methods for transforming visitor-object experiences, including exercises and strategies for teams developing exhibit themes, messages, and content, and participatory experiences.

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Wood and Latham move beyond defending or bemoaning the place of objects in our museums to exploring how objects are the nexus for what both museums and museum-goers care about most: human connections. Shifting easily between broad theory and practical exercises, The Objects of Experience will be the centerpiece for many useful conversations among museum staffs looking to move forward together. --Benjamin Filene, Director of Public History, UNC Greensboro

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Elizabeth Wood, Kiersten F. Latham

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