Encountering the 'other': Interpreting student experiences of a multi-sensory museum exhibition

P Schorch, J Walton, N Priest… - Journal of Intercultural …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The Immigration Museum Melbourne, Australia, launched the Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours
exhibition in 2011. Aimed primarily at secondary school students, this long-term installation …

Experiencing differences and negotiating prejudices at the Immigration Museum Melbourne

P Schorch - International journal of heritage studies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The social agency of museums in countering prejudices and fostering respect for differences
is increasingly recognised and empirical research has begun to illuminate the impacts of …

Towards reflexive ethnicity: Museums as sites of intercultural encounter

J Walton, Y Paradies, F Mansouri - British Educational …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In a highly globalised world with increasing ethno‐nationalistic tensions and conflicts, the
importance of intercultural education has never been greater. The challenge remains …

Learning to Share the World: Reckoning With the Logistics of Whiteness in Public Galleries and Museums

D Rousell, K Hussey-Smith - Cultural Studies↔ Critical …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores moments of pedagogical disruption as children from an urban school
encountered an exhibition titled “We Change the World” at the National Gallery of Victoria. In …

Engaging audiences on ongoing social debates through interactive and immersive exhibits

I Ntalla - The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, 2014 - search.proquest.com
Museums have been influenced by technological innovations with a significant interest in so-
called interactivity and the use of interactives has increased in the last twenty years (Kidd et …

'We are… we are everything': the politics of recognition and misrecognition at immigration museums

L Smith - Museum & Society, 2017 - journals.le.ac.uk
Qualitative interviews were undertaken with visitors at five museums that display the
histories and experiences of immigration in the United States and Australia. This paper …

[PDF][PDF] The Mixing Room project at Te Papa: co-creating the museum with refugee background youth in Aotearoa/New Zealand

S Gibson, S Kindon - Tuhinga, 2013 - academia.edu
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) represents the diverse
cultures of New Zealand through community exhibitions. The Mixing Room: stories from …

[HTML][HTML] Developing global awareness among young students: A study of students' experiences with the museum exhibition A World at stake

SS Nielsen - 2019 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
The dissertation presents a case study of A World at Stake, a museum exhibition inspired by
the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. A World at Stake was displayed at …

Curating relations between 'us' and 'them': The changing role of migration museums in Australia

A Witcomb - Curatopia, 2018 - manchesterhive.com
I would also like to ask two related things… which have puzzled me since a brief visit to the
museum some years ago. One is to ask if you want donations of crafts and small items used …

Contact zones, third spaces, and the act of interpretation

P Schorch - Museum & Society, 2013 - journals.le.ac.uk
The conceptual understanding of museums as 'contact zones' has been widely appropriated
in the museum literature and beyond. But the discussion lacks empirical insights into actual …