[ecrea] new book - Democratising the Museum. Reflections on Participatory Technologies

New book
Democratising the Museum
Reflections on Participatory Technologies
Runnel, Pille / Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Pille (eds.)
Year of Publication: 2014
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 
2014. 240 pp., 17 b/w fig., 10 tables, 7 graphs
ISBN 978-3-631-64916-9 pb. (Softcover)
ISBN 978-3-653-03972-6 (eBook)

http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=78860&cid=448&concordeid=264916


Book synopsis

Democratising the museum is a collection of articles reflecting upon the 
problem of how participation, technologically mediated or not, can 
support the museum in the process of becoming more accessible. The open 
museum shares power with its visitors while negotiating professionalism 
and the role of the museum in a modern society. The book looks at the 
roles and struggles of audiences/visitors and professionals and the role 
of digital technologies in supporting the participatory museum. While 
different chapters draw on a variety of empirical examples, the main 
analytical backbone of the book comes from an extended participatory 
action research study conducted at the Estonian National Museum. This 
book aims at both academics and professionals working in the museum field.

Contents

Contents: Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel: The Challenge of 
Democratising the Museum – Pille Runnel/Taavi Tatsi/Pille 
Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt: Who Authors the Nation? The Debate Surrounding 
the Building of the New Estonian National Museum – Pille 
Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel: When the Museum Becomes the Message 
for Participating Audiences – Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille 
Runnel/Agnes Aljas: A Multi-Method and Multi-Site Interventionist 
Approach to Studying Audience Participation in Museums – Krista 
Lepik/Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt: Handicraft Hobbyists in an 
Ethnographic Museum - Negotiating Expertise and Participation – Linda 
Lotina: Analysis of Participatory Activities in the Museums in Latvia – 
Nico Carpentier: Facing the Death of the Author. Cultural Professional’s 
Identity Work and the Fantasies of Control – Taavi Tatsi: Identity 
Struggles of Museum Professionals: Autonomous Expertise and Audience 
Participation in Exhibition Production – Taavi Tatsi/Agnes Aljas: 
Democratising Collections through Audience Participation: Opportunities 
and Obstacles – Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Agnes Aljas: Digital 
Cultural Heritage - Challenging Museums, Archives and Users – Nico 
Carpentier: Happily Lost in Virtual Space? – Pille 
Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel: Increasing the Usability of the 
Museum: Four Studies – Pille Runnel/Krista Lepik/Pille 
Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt: Visitors, Users, Audiences: Conceptualising 
People in the Museum.

About the author(s)/editor(s)

Pille Runnel, ethnologist and PhD in Media and Communication, is a 
research director at the Estonian National Museum.
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt is an associate professor at the University 
of Tartu Institute of Journalism, Communication and Information Studies 
and research associate at the Estonian National Museum.



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