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Nieuwhof, Anne (2017)

Olfactory Experiences in Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art

Research master thesis | Arts and Culture (research) (MA)

This thesis examines the notion of productive multisensory experiences in museums of modern and contemporary art, as well as the pedagogy of current olfactory curatorial strategies and fruitful conceptual tools for such future strategies in art museums. It sets out to develop a theoretical framework for understanding immersive, multisensory art museum experiences as meaningful and educative. The sense of smell functions exemplary in this for it is an exceptional multisensory sensation in itself that requires thorough reconceptualization since it has long been repressed in Western epistemology.

Multisensory museum

Museum education

Olfactory experience

Multisensory learning

Author

Nieuwhof, Anne

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Zwijnenberg, Robert

ECTS Credits

30

Language

en