Methods of Exhibition Analysis - Paperback

by Luise Reitstätter (Editor), Carla-Marinka Schorr (Editor)

Exhibitions, as constructed cultural dispositions, media of showing, and processes of social interaction, hold great interest for cultural analysis. Being able to analyze exhibitions is a skill that allows us to critically examine exhibitions as public places regarding their effects and uses, and to change them as a result. The contributions to this volume present nineteen methods of exhibition analysis from the perspective of cultural analysis, perception studies and practice-oriented work. They locate these methods in the context of their respective discourses and present them in step-by-step guidelines for hands-on application, thus providing the first compilation on exhibition analysis for research, teaching and museum practice.

Author Biography

Luise Reitstätter (Edited by)
Luise Reitstätter (Dr. phil.) is a cultural scientist. Her fields of work include practices of modern and contemporary art, museum and exhibition analyses, as well as methods of empirical social research. From 2017 until 2025, she headed the Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History (CReA) at the Department of Art History at Universität Wien. She is working as Co-PI of the FWF/DFG research project The Museum Gaze.

Carla-Marinka Schorr (Edited by)
Carla-Marinka Schorr is a museum researcher. As part of her PhD thesis, she developed a qualitative exhibition analysis method. She works at Universität Würzburg as a researcher and project manager in the AHRC DFG research project Cultural Dynamics: Museums and Democracy in Motion.