Museums and Silent Objects: Designing Effective Exhibitions

Francesca Monti is an independent researcher and museum consultant. She completed her PhD in Museum Studies at University College London, UK. Suzanne Keene is Emeritus Reader in Museum and Heritage Studies at University College London. She chairs the Organising Committee of the London conference series Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA). She is also a trustee of the Collections Trust and a member of the Editorial Board for the journal ’Museum Management and Curatorship’.

1: Introduction; 1: Exhibiting Objects – Theories and Concepts; 2: Architecture and Space Syntax; 3: Design and Design Idioms; 5: Cognitive Science, Flow and Beauty; 5: Museum Studies: Object Biographies, Learning Styles, Levels of Interpretation; 2: From Concepts to Practice; 6: Testing the Concepts in Three London Museums; 7: Concepts and Comparisons: The Three Galleries; 8: Mummies, Objects, Visitors, and Stories at the British Museum; 3: Beyond the Visual; 9: Hands on the Past at the British Museum; 10: Experiments with Sound, Colour and Interaction; 11: Sound, Colour and Interaction: What We Learned; 4: Effective Exhibitions; 12: Harmony in Ancient Egypt; 13: Reviewing the Findings; 14: Conclusions: Effective Exhibitions