Contemporary museums are ‘among the most successful leisure venues in the world’ (Falk 2009: 21). At the same time, they are cultural forums, where people’s [hi]stories (understood both as reconstructed pasts and events) can be discussed in informal and public ways, and where personal memories are materialised and shared, through collections (Pearce 1998). This is particularly true when museum ...

In November 2020, I spoke with Alan Blum, MD, scholar, collector, curator, exhibitor, activist, and director of the University Alabama Center for Study Tobacco Society (CSTS). He has been creating tobacco-themed exhibitions since 1980s—in brick-and-mortar as well digital settings—based on a prodigious collection tobacco-related artifacts. Before joining CSTS, founder Doctors Ought to Care, nati...

This article presents a reflection on particular category of objects often found in ethnographic museum collections: traps. It asks what might be to this kind object, and these particularities teach us about making exhibitions, whether specifically traps or not. I argue that can ways engaging with mobilise call “empathetic imagination”. In the conclusion, reflect how exhibitions use artefacts r...

Three-dimensional modelling tools can be extended and applied to fields other than manufacturing and design. Such tools can prove useful for the visualisation of historical information both for research and within a museum exhibition setting. This paper reports upon a set of software based upon a database of buildings, people, and lots from 18th century Montrhal which uses computer visualisatio...

Distress remains a pervasive experience of patients with cancer. As a result, a quality improvement project was conducted in the breast cancer clinic of a university cancer center in the midwestern United States. Nurses identified a need to increase identification of distress over a six-month period when they made only eight referrals for distress support during 1,291 patient encounters. The ei...

Visitors’ criticisms demand a shift from passive, encyclopaedic exhibitions with curatorial authority, to ones that engage visitors and place them at the centre of focus. This has ignited change in approaches exhibition design. One is employment immersive together strong storytelling, which can create memorable experiences redefine visitor experience. study investigates design production proces...