Free Time in an Art Museum: Pausing,Gazing and Interacting

Art museums are popular places where people choose to spend free time. Leisure in art museums may be characterized by silence, contemplation, reaction to art, and interaction with other visitors. The purpose of this exploratory investigation was to understand more about the nature of the art museum experience, using as a setting the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna, Austria. Between 2006 and 2008, a total of 100 adults who visited this museum engaged in conversational interviews with the researcher. Conversations showed that visits to art museums during free time stimulate complex interactions between visitors and art. Patrons consider art museums to be spaces for visual contemplation and playful leisure behavior, and sites of continued education that can inform our understanding of serious leisure.     

Understanding the Influences of Atmospheric Cues on the Emotional Responses and Behaviours of Museum Visitors

ABSTRACT

The ability of an atmosphere to affect consumer emotions and behaviour is known to be particularly relevant for service organisations. This study examined the role of atmospherics in a service domain via a survey of the responses to relevant stimuli among a sample of visitors to ten UK museums. A model indicating the relationships between museum atmospherics and visitor conduct was developed and tested. Visitors' internal reactions to various atmospheric factors were explored and the consequences of these responses for an individual's approach-avoidance behaviour were evaluated.     

The cultural tourism potential of a fashion-related exhibition – the case of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty at the Victoria and Albert Museum

The exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty held at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London attracted a total number of 493,043 visitors from both the UK and overseas, making it one of the most visited exhibitions throughout the museum’s history. Much of the exhibition’s popularity was drawn from the late designer’s fame, reputation, and exceptional technique in design and clothing construction. The V&A museum also having the title as the greatest Museum of decorative arts and design, and founded during the late Victorian era, possesses heritage value that may also have played a role in attracting visitors to the Savage Beauty exhibition. Findings suggest that Savage Beauty appeals more on the local cultural tourism context for its connection to London. The V&A’s heritage value as Grade I listed may be of minimal interest to tourists; however, visitor interest in London and the number of great museums in the city serves well enough to attract and enrich cultural awareness of potential tourists both local and international. Special exhibitions such as Savage Beauty may also prove effective in attracting tourists, leading to increasing cultural tourism once tourists learn more about London’s culture, which includes fashion, but only in a derivative sense.     

网络数字时代提升我国文化贸易发展水平研究——以博物馆为例

博物馆是促进文化贸易、提升文化软实力的重要途径,网络数字技术发展为博物馆提升文化贸易水平创造了良好条件。本文在系统梳理我国博物馆运用网络数字技术现状的基础上,提出了还存在技术应用不足与技术应用过度、文化内涵挖掘展陈不够、与海外观众沟通不充分、国际交流水平不高等问题,并从宏观层面和微观层面对提升我国博物馆文化贸易发展水平提出了具体对策建议。     

博物馆安防系统的设计

博物馆安防系统为博物馆安全提供保障,是一项十分重要的工作。重点就博物馆安防系统的规划及具体设计展开探讨。     

It still goes on: football and the heritage of the Great War in Britain

This article examines the museum displays and modern memorials that draw on the role of football and footballers in the history of the Great War in Britain. The place of football in the popular memory of the war in Britain is certainly significant at regional and national levels; from the stories of individual footballers and local teams signing up to fight for ‘King and Country’ to the more famous examples of soldiers kicking a football over no man's land at the Battle of Somme in 1916 and the football game played between opposing combatants during the Christmas Truce of 1914. Museums and memorial sites in Britain and on the former battlefields that reference and represent the place of the sport in the conflict provide places for tourists and pilgrims to remember and mourn these events and the dead. However, the manner in which these sites of memory frame the significance of the game in relationship to the war reveals wider assumptions about the contested memory of the conflict in Britain. Whilst the popular memory of the war focuses on the slaughter of the battlefields and the piteous futility of war, attempts at revising this perception have sought to emphasise the endeavour, commitment and achievement of soldiers. In this battlefield of memory, sports heritage serves as a lens through which issues of contemporary identity in Britain can be established and contested.     

以工业文化为主题的沈阳铸造博物馆会展规划探讨

随着现代社会的发展，大量古代文化遗产得到了很好的保护，然而工业文化遗产保护意识却有待进一步增强。利用沈阳铸造博物馆现有的资源，对其进行会展规划，以此为代表在保护工业文化遗产的同时大力发展北方会展业。     

浅谈博物馆的宣传工作

宣传是博物馆的一项重要的工作内容。博物馆应设立专门的宣传部门，对每个展览编制出宣传方案、实施步骤，并且落实方案的实施；博物馆宣传工作的另一个重点，应放在重要文物上，特别是镇馆之宝上。     

新形势下院校博物馆发展的思考

高校博物馆是我国教育事业中一个重要组成部分。它种类多,藏有丰富的资料和珍贵标本,有雄厚的研究力量。在市场经济的新形势下,高校博物馆应面向社会开放,发挥自己的优势,补充我国或地区博物馆数量少和种类不全的现状。文章从五个方面论述了高校博物馆的改革,使高校博物馆在为本校教学、科研服务的同时为社会服务,从而真正发挥高校博物馆的教育功能。     

成都理工大学博物馆三十年的历史沿革

成都理工大学博物馆是国内外有一定影响,也是四川省最大的地学类综合性自然博物馆。博物馆的发展历程与成都理工大学的发展是密不可分的,在校党政的领导下,跟随着成都理工大学发展历程,经历了1978年、1988年、1998年和2008年的四次跳跃式发展。目前,新建博物馆是一座占地面积75亩,建筑面积15000平方米,集园林、科普与教学展览为一体,拥有现化技术展示的现代化地学类综合性博物馆。