Summary
Claude Gilbert: The Museum and the Audience
The work "Museum and the Audience" is intended for museological experts, museum employees, but also for the museum audience. This contemporary, innovative reading that teaches us that museums are places of growth, development and action, is written in accordance with the understanding that "museums are not about objects but about people". It is a book that changes our traditional understanding of museums, their static nature and immunity to innovation. This image of museums has changed significantly in recent decades in the world.
Museums have now become a more flexible institution, more sensitive to the space and time that determine it, closer to the life, needs and wishes of their users. Museums should be experienced as places of living history, as laboratories, workshops, active classrooms. The texts collected in that book point to various ideas that French museums implement in working with the public and open up broad horizons applicable in our conditions as well. "Museum and Audience" is a work that proposes a small museum revolution that will make museums a place of action, museum experts into creators of reality, and observers into active participants.
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