How Have Museums Tried To Address a More Diverse Audience?

How Have Museums Tried To Address a More Diverse Audience?

Introduction

Museums and displays, together with the associated panoply of galleries, international exhibitions, theme parks, panoramas, arcades and department stores, have become the important factors for museums to attract diverse audience from all over the world. Every exhibitionary complex or museum involves ways of organizing and institutionalizing visual experience; specific conjunctions of technologies of representation, conventions and codes of understanding, associated ocular regimes, and their own particular exhibitionary narratives, to address the needs of diverse audiences. Complexes are both dependent and supportive of markets, and through their unequal institutional engagements and relationships with audiences, classes, guilds or professions are complicit in the reproduction of social structures. In this connection, this research paper is going to answer how have museums tried to address a more diverse audience.

Discussion and Analysis

To address the needs of diverse audiences from all over the world, museums disseminate public culture through their architecture, decoration, arrangements, articulation with other institutions and sponsored rituals frequently disclose, as Duncan, and others have clearly demonstrated, as much about the societies of which they form part as the supposedly objectivist disciplines they institutionalize. Museums call on classic mythology through the figure of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, the mother of the nine muses, the 'Remembrances'. Exhibitions, the clearest expression to the public of a museum's identity, structure objects spatially to reactivate or create memory anew. All exhibitions involve the 'disorganization of an order and the organization of a disorder'. They 'pull together an unstable combination of fragmentary mythologies, poly-vocal meanings, and diverse values' whose understanding is arbitrated by interaction between curators and diverse audiences. Once de-contextualized and allowed to return to their ruinous state these fragmentary material ciphers of diverse histories and geographies readily induce melancholia. ...