The power of touch : handling objects in museum and heritage contexts
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The power of touch : handling objects in museum and heritage contexts
（Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London）
Left Coast Press, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
* Introduction: touching objects - the power of touchElizabeth Pye, UCL Institute of ArchaeologyTHE SCIENCE OF TOUCH* Weighing up the value of touchAlan Wing, Christos Giachritsis and Roberta Roberts, Sensory Motor Neuroscience Group, Behavioural Brain Sciences, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham* Making sense of touch: a multisensory approach to the perception of objectsCharles Spence, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford UniversityHISTORY OF TOUCH* Archaeology of touch: Babylonian magic and healingMark Geller, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL* For Your Eyes Only? The Magic Touch of RelicsJan Geisbusch, Department of Anthropology UCL * Don't Touch! Hands off! Art, blindness, and the conservation of expertiseFiona Candlin, Birkbeck College, University of London, and British MuseumPROFESSIONAL TOUCH* The role of touch in identification and connoisseurshipSally MacDonald, UCL Collections* Getting to know objects: the role of touch in investigation and conservationElizabeth Pye, UCL Institute of ArchaeologyTOUCH AND MEMORY* The elderly as 'Curators' in North LondonMichael Rowlands, Department of Anthropology UCL* Easing the transition: using museum objects with elderly people Claire Jacques, Culture and Adult Education, Lincolnshire County CouncilDISCOVERING OBJECTS THROUGH TOUCH * The touch experience in museums in the UK and Japan Julia Cassim, Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, Royal College of Art* Touching art touching you: BlindArt, Sense & SensualitySharareh Khayami, lindArt* Learning through touchEmily Tabassi and Tara Trewinnard-Boyle, Access Artefacts, Nottingham Museums Loans Service* To play or not to play: making a collection of musical instruments accessibleAndrew Lamb, The Bate Collection, University of Oxford* Making things whole again: working with a community artist to restore a Kwakwaka'wakw maskJessica Johnson, National Museum of the American Indian, WashingtonSIMULATED TOUCH* Touching Ghosts: Haptic technologies and cultural objects in museumsDavid Prytherch, User-lab, University of Central England Birmingham Institute of Art & Design* Exploring Virtual Touch in the Creative Arts and ConservationAngela Geary, Camberwell College of Arts, The London Institute
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