Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums

This book is the first to offer comprehensive insights into visitor reactions to museum exhibitions, memorials, and memory sites. It explores visitor experience as a multidimensional phenomenon and considers the impact of curatorial and design choices, visitor motivations and expectations, and emotions. It is essential reading for academics, postgraduate students, and practitioners in museums and heritage, visitor studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, and tourism.

Format: Hardback
Length: 286 pages
Publication date: 29 November 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This groundbreaking book is the first of its kind to provide comprehensive insights into the diverse range of visitor reactions to museum exhibitions, memorials, and memory sites. Drawing exclusively from empirical research, it offers critical perspectives on the visitor experience at museums and memory sites across the United States, Poland, Austria, Germany, France, the UK, Norway, Hungary, Australia, and Israel.

In its exploration of visitor experience, the book delves into the intricate nuances of this multidimensional phenomenon, recognizing visitors as active participants rather than mere 'learners.' It situates visitor experience within a broad spectrum of national, ethnic, cultural, social, and generational contexts, acknowledging the profound impact of these factors on their interpretation and understanding of historical events and subjects.

The book also examines the profound influence of museums' curatorial and design choices, visitor motivations and expectations, and the crucial role that emotions play in shaping our understanding of the past. By examining these factors, the book offers valuable insights into audience motivation, expectation, and behavior, making it an essential resource for academics, postgraduate students, and practitioners in the fields of museums and heritage, visitor studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, and tourism.

Through its comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach, this book provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of the complex dynamics that shape visitor experiences and their impact on our collective memory and understanding of the world.

Weight: 710g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032115870