The Power of Touch : Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Context

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications

ISBN-10 1598743031

ISBN-13 9781598743036

Publisher Left Coast Press Inc

Imprint Left Coast Press Inc

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 28th, 2008

Print length 262 Pages

Weight 640 grams

Product Classification: Museology & heritage studies

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Contributors to this volume explore how the sense of touch can be utilized in museums and other cultural institutions to facilitate understanding and learning.

Despite the fact that we have a range of senses with which to perceive the world around us, museums and other cultural institutions have traditionally used sight as the main way to convey information. In everyday life, though, we use touch constantly in conjunction with sight. Why, then, does it play so small a role in the study and enjoyment of museum objects? Contributors to this volume explore how the sense of touch can be utilized in cultural institutions to facilitate understanding and learning.

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