A Walk in the Museum with Michel de Certeau: A Conceptual Helping Hand for Museum Practitioners

Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Boon, Tim
Date published
October 2011
Abstract
A decade ago, as I consolidated my reflections on the London Science Museum’s gallery (MMW), on which I was Deputy Project Director, I was introduced to Michel de Certeau’s , which seemed to me to articulate many of the intuitions that I had developed up to that point about audience engagement with exhibitions. In 2011, de Certeau is still not that widely cited in museum studies. For the sake of the insights that derive from applying his work to the museum context, I present his work in this article.
Journal title
Curator: The Museum Journal
Publisher
Wiley
ISSN
0011-3069
eISSN
2151-6952
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