Dissolving objects: Museums, atmosphere and the creation of presence

摘要: Abstract This article takes its point of departure in the current attention to materiality objects museum display. Recent literature (Classen and Howes, 2006; Dudley, 2010, 2012; Pye, 2007) has stressed need for museums focus more explicitly on their capacity create experiences. While appreciating this approach argues that order understand perspectives opened by such experiences, we go beyond a as such. On basis analyses two ethnographic exhibitions it is argued rather than per se, what at root experience atmosphere – in-betweenness subjects. Rather making absent (past or distant) present, creates presence such, an affective space which disturbs our everyday concepts world. perspective makes possible consider not storehouse past, but bridgehead (Runia, 2006) future, allowing us short while imagine futures present conception