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- Title
Making Meaning on the Mall: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival as a Constructivist Museum.
- Authors
BELANUS, BETTY J.; FERNANDEZ, KATIE
- Abstract
George Hein, museum education theorist, asserts that there are five qualities a 'constructivist exhibition' must have (1998, 35). The authors, assembling observations of visitor engagement and qualitative data from the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, compare the event to Hein's constructivist exhibition criteria, to assess whether the Festival allowed visitors to 'make meaning,' and to see whether visitor meaning-making meshed with the goals of the curators. The answers have the potential to help improve visitor experiences and learning outcomes at museums and other curated cultural events.
- Subjects
FOLK festivals; MUSEUM studies; SERVICES for museum visitors; ART exhibition techniques; HEIN, George; CONSTRUCTIVISM (Psychology)
- Publication
Curator, 2014, Vol 57, Issue 4, p437
- ISSN
0011-3069
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cura.12084