Search for dissertations about: "Museology"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word Museology.
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1. Displaying Spaces : Spatial Design, Experience, and Authenticity in Museums
Abstract : This dissertation aims to analyse how spatial design affects experiences and meaning making in museums. The overarching question is what the spatial elements and forms within museums communicate to those who visit them. READ MORE
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2. The Ambivalent Potentiality of Vulnerability : Museum Pedagogy in Exhibitions on Difficult Matters and its Ethical Implications
Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to critically investigate and problematize how museum exhibitions on Difficult Matters, like war and sexual violence, can be designed in order to contribute to teaching-learning relations between museum and visitor, which may transform existing perceptions of self, others, and the world and evoke a deepened sense of responsibility in the viewers, i.e. READ MORE
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3. Lighting candles before a headless Jesus : sacred heritage, heritagized sacredness, and the many journeys between categories
Abstract : The overarching aim of this thesis, situated within Museology and Heritage Studies, is to investigate the different modes and devices of transfer between sacredness and heritage. The research question, 'What happens in the transfer between heritage and sacredness?', is investigated as production of sacred heritage in early modern Europe and specifically Sweden, Rome, and Venice (Part I), and as uses of the sacred as heritage in different times and contexts (Part II). READ MORE
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4. Desires of decoloniality and museal logics : encounters between the swedish museum of ethnography, democratic ideals, and contemporary audiences
Abstract : ‘Decolonisation’ is a frequently used expression in museum contexts, and a growing museal practice. In ethnographic museums, such attempts are usually performed in the shape of projects that seek to establish new relationships with source– or diasporan communities. READ MORE
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5. Hope and rust : Reinterpreting the industrial place in the late 20th century
Abstract : Industrial society has changed thoroughly during the last half a century. In many Western cities and towns, new patterns of production and consumption entailed that centrally located industrial areas became redundant. The once lively workplace and urban core became silent and abandoned, gradually falling into decay. READ MORE
