Liminal spaces and the shaping of family museum visits: a spatial ethnography of a major international art museum
dc.contributor.author | Hood, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Bailey, AR | |
dc.contributor.author | Coles, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Pringle, E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-21T08:49:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-01-16 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-03-18T16:17:22Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Museum managers face mounting pressures to increase and widen audiences, with families often perceived as a key audience requiring particular forms of engagement. The article utilises spatial ethnographic research at a major international art museum (Tate Modern) to examine how family museum practices relate to museum spatial design. Liminal spaces were found to be vital in shaping the experiences of family visitors by affording opportunies for more banal practices (such as playing, sitting, talking, eating and resting). Although they may be partially supported by collection displays, liminal spaces do not usually feature in museum management agendas. As the social purpose of museums continues to be debated, the paper argues for a greater understanding of the full range of affordances of museums for families, paying attention to the significance of different types of museum spaces in mediating experience and the importance of optimising those spaces for greater access. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 1-24 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 16 January 2022 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2021.2023897 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/J50015X/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/129095 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-4379-5777 (Bailey, Adrian R) | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-3142-3183 (Coles, Tim) | |
dc.identifier | ScopusID: 57202724400 | 57220362375 | 6602162441 (Coles, Tim) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You are not required to obtain permission to reuse this article in part or whole. | en_GB |
dc.subject | museums | en_GB |
dc.subject | families | en_GB |
dc.subject | liminal spaces | en_GB |
dc.subject | spatial ethnography | en_GB |
dc.title | Liminal spaces and the shaping of family museum visits: a spatial ethnography of a major international art museum | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-21T08:49:19Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0964-7775 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1872-9185 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Museum Management and Curatorship | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Museum Management and Curatorship | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-12-26 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-01-16 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-03-21T08:46:54Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-03-21T08:52:31Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-01-16 |
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