Making Sense of Things: Constructing Aesthetic Experience in Museum Gardens and Galleries

Studies of museum behaviour in sociology often examine how external environments shape organizational practice. Through an ethnographic study, this article considers programmes for visitors with disabilities at a major metropolitan art museum and botanical garden to ask how ‘sensory conventions’ var...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gemma Mangione
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2017-06-01
Series:Museum & Society
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/624