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Art Museum Education

Facilitating Gallery Experiences

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  • © 2015
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Authors:
  1. Olga Hubard
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About this book

How can museum educators facilitate experiences with artworks that are meaningful to viewers? How might educators negotiate divergences between visitors' perspectives and official information? What is the place of emotions and bodily sensations in art viewing? This book explores these and other questions key to generative gallery teaching.

Keywords

  • museum education
  • gallery teaching
  • art education
  • aesthetic education
  • aesthetic experience
  • museum studies
  • art interpretation
  • embodied knowing
  • embodiment
  • museum facilitation
  • dialogue
  • education
  • emotion
  • information
  • Museum

Reviews

“The book Art Museum Education: Facilitating Gallery Experiences … offers up-to-date reflections on art museum and gallery teaching. … In writing about the original ideas and practices that are theoretically supported, innovative, and feasible approach to art museum education in the field of museum studies make a pertinent and relevant contribution. Hubard invites all museum researchers and educators to reflect on and discuss the experiences of art museum visitors, turning such experiences into useful tools.” (João Pedro Fróis, The Museum Journal, Vol. 59 (4), October, 2016)

About the author

Olga Hubard is Associate Professor of Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA and collaborates in education initiatives with art museums around the world. She has deep experience as a museum educator, museum administrator and teaching artist.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Art Museum Education

  • Book Subtitle: Facilitating Gallery Experiences

  • Authors: Olga Hubard

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-41287-4Published: 12 October 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 191

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