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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Museum media – The international handbooks of museum studies / edited by Michelle Henning / general editors: Sharon Macdonald, Helen Rees Leahy. – First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9850-9 (cloth) | ISBN 978-1-119-64202-2 (pbk)

1. Museums. 2. Museum exhibits. I. Macdonald, Sharon. II. Leahy, Helen Rees.

AM5.I565 2015

609–dc23

2015003407

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Cover Design: Wiley

Cover Image: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Pulse Room, 2010, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. © DACS 2014 / VEGAP. Photo by Peter Mallet.

Set in 11/13pt Dante by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India

Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

1 2.2 Melik Ohanian, Invisible Film , 2005

2 2.3 Julien Maire, Exploding Camera , 2007

3 4.1 Pavel Boyko and Arkadi Lebedev, The Battle of Kursk: A History Lesson

4 6.2 Installation view of Remote Control , Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

5 6.3 LuckyPDF’s James Early and Chloe Sims at Remote Control

6 10.2 Rupert Cox and Angus Carlyle, Air Pressure , 2012

7 10.3 Rupert Cox and Angus Carlyle, Air Pressure , 2012

8 11.3 Menashe Kadishman, Shalechet , Jewish Museum, Berlin

9 13.2 Stone circle in the Museum of Witchcraft

10 13.6 Living room at The Valiant Soldier

11 14.1 Exhibition design model of National Maritime Museum Cornwall

12 14.3 UK pavilion, Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan

13 16.1 Self-enactment: the scene at the entrance to A Matter of Belief exhibition

14 16.5 What does Switzerland believe? Representative objects in A Matter of Belief

15 17.1 The Mirakulosum

16 18.6 The Hall of Human Biology, ca. 1977, Natural History Museum

17 19.2 The Interactive Desk, Bunratty Folk Park

18 20.3 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Pulse Room , 2010, Manchester Art Gallery

19 21.3 John Bell, The Variable Museum

20 23.1 BMW Welt, Munich

21 23.3 “Going to the Schirn is not art,” Frankfurt

22 24.3 Mark Dion, Cabinet of Curiosities, Musée Océanographique, Monaco

23 25.1 Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors , 1533

1 1.1 “Who Built the Internet?” National Media Museum, Bradford

2 1.2 8 mm film cameras in storage at the National Media Museum

3 2.1 Roman Ondák, Snapshots from Baghdad , 2007

4 2.2 Melik Ohanian, Invisible Film , 2005

5 2.3 Julien Maire, Exploding Camera , 2007

6 2.4 A precursor to the “Big Picture Show,” Imperial War Museum North, Manchester

7 3.1 Wildwalk, Bristol, 2007

8 4.1 Pavel Boyko and Arkadi Lebedev, The Battle of Kursk: A History Lesson

9 4.2 Still from video testimony of Ulrike Poppe in the Haus der Geschichte

10 4.3 Exhibition section on the beat generation in the Haus der Geschichte

11 6.1 Poster for CAC TV, 2004

12 6.2 Installation view of Remote Control , Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

13 6.3 LuckyPDF’s James Early and Chloe Sims at Remote Control , Institute of Contemporary Arts

14 10.1 Castaways exhibit, 2007, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

15 10.2 Rupert Cox and Angus Carlyle, Air Pressure , 2012, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

16 10.3 Rupert Cox and Angus Carlyle, Air Pressure , 2012

17 11.1 Louis Vuitton shop window, Paris

18 11.2 Atelier Brückner, BMW Museum, Munich

19 11.3 Menashe Kadishman, Shalechet , Jewish Museum, Berlin

20 11.4a–c Interactional organization of a museum visit

21 13.1 Exterior of Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle

22 13.2 Stone circle in the Museum of Witchcraft

23 13.3 Cabinet of protective magic, Museum of Witchcraft

24 13.4 Poppets arranged on a protective hagstone, Museum of Witchcraft

25 13.5 The public bar at The Valiant Soldier, Buckfastleigh

26 13.6 Living room at The Valiant Soldier

27 13.7 Exterior of Dartmoor Prison Museum

28 14.1 Exhibition design model of National Maritime Museum Cornwall

29 14.2 Land Venn diagram, showing interrelationship of factors in the design process

30 14.3 UK pavilion, Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan

31 14.4 British Music Experience, Table Talk

32 14.5 Dinobirds, Natural History Museum, London

33 16.1 Self-enactment: the scene at the entrance to A Matter of Belief exhibition

34 16.2 “Believer” or “Nonbeliever” USB sticks

35 16.3 Checkpoint surveying individuals’ belief profiles

36 16.4 Round table finale: visitors assigned to new faith profiles

37 16.5 What does Switzerland believe? Representative objects in A Matter of Belief

38 17.1 The Mirakulosum

39 17.2 The color-mixer

40 18.1a Otto Neurath, 1944

41 18.1b Marie Neurath

42 18.2 Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum, Vienna ca. 1927

43 18.3 Alma Wittlin’s “The Enchanted Loser” from the Transformation Reader

44 18.4 Memo from NHM Archives

45 18.5a Traditional curator/designer model used at the NHM before the New Exhibition Scheme

46 18.5b Neurath’s team model from the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum

47 18.5c Miles’s post-1975 NES team model

48 18.6 The Hall of Human Biology, ca. 1977, Natural History Museum

49 18.7 “Survival of the Fittest in SW7,” Sunday Times Weekly Review , 1981

50 19.1 Cottage on display at Bunratty Folk Park, Co. Clare, Ireland

51 19.2 The Interactive Desk, Bunratty Folk Park

52 19.3 Sheffield General Cemetery

53 19.4 The Bird Box prototype from sketch to realization

54 19.5 The Binoculars prototype from sketch to realization

55 19.6 The Companion Novel prototype from sketch to realization

56 20.1 Talkaoke at the Barbican Centre, London, 2012