Immersive Exhibitions

TY - CHAP

T1 - Immersive Exhibitions

AU - Achiam, Marianne

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - The immersive exhibition is a specialized exhibition genre in museums, which creates the illusion of time and place by representing key characteristics of a reference world and by integrating the visitor in this three-dimensionally reconstructed world (Mortensen 2010). A successful representation of the reference world depends on three criteria: whether the exhibition is staged as a coherent whole with all the displayed objects supporting the representation, whether the visitor is integrated as a component of the exhibition, and whether the content and message of the exhibition become dramatized as a result of the visitor’s interaction with the exhibit.

AB - The immersive exhibition is a specialized exhibition genre in museums, which creates the illusion of time and place by representing key characteristics of a reference world and by integrating the visitor in this three-dimensionally reconstructed world (Mortensen 2010). A successful representation of the reference world depends on three criteria: whether the exhibition is staged as a coherent whole with all the displayed objects supporting the representation, whether the visitor is integrated as a component of the exhibition, and whether the content and message of the exhibition become dramatized as a result of the visitor’s interaction with the exhibit.

U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-6165-0_346-4

DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-6165-0_346-4

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-94-007-2149-4

SP - 485

EP - 487

BT - Encyclopedia of Science Education

A2 - Gunstone, Richard

PB - Springer Science+Business Media

CY - Dordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London

ER -