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A Walk in the Museum with Michel de Certeau: A Conceptual Helping Hand for Museum Practitioners
Author(s) -
Boon Tim
Publication year - 2011
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.2151-6952.2011.00107.x
Subject(s) - exhibition , context (archaeology) , sociology , everyday life , visual arts , museology , art , art history , michel foucault , media studies , aesthetics , epistemology , history , philosophy , politics , political science , archaeology , law
A decade ago, as I consolidated my reflections on the London Science Museum’s Making the Modern World gallery (MMW), on which I was Deputy Project Director, I was introduced to Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life , 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.