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A Journey Unlike Any Other: An Interactive Exhibition at the National Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark
Author(s) -
Funch Bjarne Sode
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.2006.tb00212.x
Subject(s) - exhibition , visitor pattern , homeland , visual arts , refugee , perception , experiential learning , immigration , empathy , media studies , psychology , sociology , art , history , political science , social psychology , pedagogy , archaeology , computer science , neuroscience , politics , law , programming language
Abstract A Journey Unlike Any Other is an interactive museum exhibition that introduces visitors to the experience of being a refugee. First, the visitor is confronted with hostility from soldiers in the homeland, and later, after an escape, with all the difficulties derived from meetings with police and immigration authorities in the new country. The provocations visitors endure during the course of the exhibition enhance a high degree of perceptual awareness, reflectivity and memory. In the aftermath of their experience, visitors indicate an increase of empathic understanding and experiential knowledge, whereas their interest in information and further background knowledge seems to be unaffected.