Walking and sensing at Faaborg Museum. Atmosphere and walk-along interviews at the museum

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  • Tina Anette Madsen Faaborg Museum

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.6351

Emneord (Nøkkelord):

atmosphere, presence, multisensory perception, walk-along interviews, sensory knowledge, Faaborg Museum

Sammendrag

Since 2009 the Danish Agency for Culture has conducted the national
museum survey for all national and government approved museums to participate
in. The survey has integrated “atmosphere” as an evaluation criterion and has
documented that visitors seek and worship such experiences. Atmosphere, however,
is intangible and some spaces can evoke atmosphere more than others, due to
the way they initiate interplay of the senses beyond language. Museum curators
need not know the visitors’ experience of atmosphere in detail to be able to pay
attention to atmosphere, but there is a growing need to qualify the understanding
of the visitors’ experience of atmosphere to influence the way museums engage
in atmosphere as a curatorial means. This article proposes a way to explore the
visitors’ experience of atmosphere by combining theories of atmosphere by Gernot
Böhme and Juhani Pallasmaa with sensorial anthropology as defined by Tim
Ingold and Jo Lee and applying sensory ethnography and the method of the walkalong
interview, suggested by Sarah Pink as a method to bring forward the visitors’
experience of atmospheric qualities. Faaborg Museum is used as a case and the
analysis is based on four walk-along interviews partaken in 2016.

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Tina Anette Madsen, Faaborg Museum

Ph.D. Student

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