Museum Science

Technocratic Museum

by Valerie Casey

"Museums persuasively communicate with their audiences through display techniques, and visitors experience the museum through curatorial negotiation. Prosthetics like label text, docent monologues, and exhibition catalogues have long mediated the relationship between viewers and objects. In recent years, however, in the context of late capitalism's facility for mass customization and media saturation, encounters with objects both in and out of the museum have been obscured by stylistic details that relate them more to a larger culture of design than those developed organically from objects themselves. In turn, experiences within the museum cannot help but be affected". http://www.valcasey.com/thesis/thesis_technocratic.html