Power of Touch Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context

Name: Power of Touch Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context
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ISBN: 9781598743043

ISBN-10: 159874304X

ISBN-13: 9781598743043

Edition: 2007

Authors: Elizabeth Pye

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Despite the fact that we have a range of senses with which to perceive the world around us, museums and other cultural institutions have traditionally used sight as the main way to convey information. In everyday life, though, we use touch constantly in conjunction with sight. Why, then, does it play so small a role in the study and enjoyment of museum objects? Contributors to this volume explore how the sense of touch can be utilized in cultural institutions to facilitate understanding and learning.

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Elizabeth Pye is Senior Lecturer at the University College London Institute of Archaeology. She coordinates the Institute's Heritage Studies Research Group and its masters program in conservation. She is editor of Caring for the Past: Issues in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums (2000)



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: The Power of Touch




Science of Touch



Weighing up the Value of Touch




Making Sense of Touch: A Multisensory Approach to the Perception of Objects




History of Touch



Archaeology of Touch: Babylonian Magic and Healing




For Your Eyes Only? The Magic Touch of Relics




Don't Touch! Hands Off! Art, Blindness, and the Conservation of Expertise




Professional Touch



Exploring the Role of Touch in Connoisseurship and the Identification of Objects




Understanding Objects: The Role of Touch in Conservation




Touch and Memory



The Elderly as 'Curators' in North London




Easing the Transition: Using Museum Objects with Elderly People




Touch and Discovery



The Touch Experience in Museums in the UK and Japan




Touching Art, Touching You: Blind Art, Sense, and Sensuality




Learning through Touch




To Play or Not To Play: Making a Collection of Musical Instruments Accessible




Collaborative Touch: Working with a Community Artist to Restore a Kwakwaka'wakw Mask




Virtual Touch



Touching Ghosts: Haptic Technologies in Museums




Exploring Virtual Touch in the Creative Arts and Conservation



Index


About the Contributors