Theorizing Museum and Heritage Visiting

Laurajane Smith

doi:10.1002/9781118829059

Theorizing Museum and Heritage Visiting

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This chapter questions both the degree to which people go to museums seeking education or learning opportunities, and the degree to which museums may be perceived as educational institutions. Rather than a learning experience, the museum visit may be understood analytically as a cultural performance in which people either consciously or unconsciously seek to have their views, sense of self, and social or cultural belonging reinforced.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The International Handbooks of Museum Studies: Museum Theory
Editors	Kylie Message and Andrea Witcomb
Place of Publication	Chichester
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	459-484
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9781118829059
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118829059
Publication status	Published - 2015

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