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Immersion in Museums
#mcn2013immersion
What does immersion in
museums look like?
Ed RodleyPeabody Essex Museum
“Museums are wormholes to other worlds”
-Jerry Saltz(on Reddit of all places)
I’ve only ever cried once in a
museum
This is where I work
This is also where I work
So I wonder about immersion and how
we can use it.
The kinds of immersive museum
experiences
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Observe a momentObserve a moment
Observe a set pieceObserve a set piece
Get lost in it allGet lost in it all
Take in a showTake in a show
What are the hallmarks of immersive
experiences?•Realism of the illusion•Dimensionality•Multi-sensory stimulation •Meaningfulness•Mental imagery•Lack of interfering factors
So what?
Immersion is a means, not an end
Immersion can contribute to a flow
experience
With apologies to M. Csíkszentmihályi
How does immersion work in other media?
So, I asked around. And here we are.
How do you create realistic and
appropriate viewer expectations for an immersive museum
experience?
How do you strike the right balance
between providing scaffolding and
freedom for visitors to control the flow of their
own experience?
How do you create a relationship
between the visitor and the characters
in the story -- whether those characters are
objects, artworks, or actors?
How do you create opportunities for visitors to have
shared experiences that don't break the immersion?
When the curator is no longer simply the teacher, what is her or his role in
this new type of exhibition
experience?
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