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Hands-on, Shoes-off: multisensory tools enhance family engagement within an art museum
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Families with young children typically struggle to engage with traditional art museum environments. This research examined the impact of multisensory tools on family engagement within Mathaf: Arab
Museum of Modern Art, Qatar. Sixty families with at least one child aged 0–11 were observed during two tasks. One task required participants to look at a series of paintings to select their favorite. In another task, families were given a toolkit of multisensory items to facilitate interaction with a painting. A semi-structured observational method produced quantitative and qualitative data about participant
engagement and intergenerational interaction. Self-rating scores of
task enjoyment were also collected. Results indicate that multisensory
tools enhance family engagement with museums, artworks, and
each other. Results also suggest that word-based interpretation was
not necessary. We consider the potential implications of these findings
in relation to family programming within art museums and
museums more generally.
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Multisensory tools Museum environments Engagement
Citation
Alison F. Eardley, Claire Dobbin, Joselia Neves & Peter Ride (2018) Hands- On, Shoes-Off: Multisensory Tools Enhance Family Engagement Within an Art Museum, Visitor Studies, 21:1, 79-97, DOI: 10.1080/10645578.2018.1503873
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Routledge