Touch in Museums: Policy and Practice in Object Handling

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I: What Do We Mean by Touch?
	1 Museums, Modernity and the Class Politics of Touching Objects
	2 Making Sense of Touch
	3 The Two Sides of Touch: Sensing and Feeling
	4 Emotional Touch: A Neuroscientific Overview
Part II: New Technologies for Enhancing Object Interpretation
	5 The Use of Haptic Interfaces in Haptics Research
	6 Tactual Explorations: A Tactile Interpretation of a Museum Exhibit through Tactile Art Works and Augmented Reality
	7 CONTACT: Digital Modelling of Object and Process in Artefact Teaching
	8 Out of Touch? Digital Technologies, Ethnographic Objects and Sensory Orders
	9 A Versatile Large-scale Multimodal VR System for Cultural Heritage Visualization
	10 Touch Technologies and Museum Access
Part III: Touch and Memory
	11 A Memory for Touch: The Cognitive Psychology of Tactile Memory
	12 Aesthetics of Touch among the Elderly
	13 Reminiscence: Recent Work at the British Museum
	14 Getting a Handle on the Past: The Use of Objects in Reminiscence Work
Part IV: Therapeutic Approaches to Touch
	15 Enrichment Programmes in Hospitals: Using Museum Loan Boxes in University College London Hospital
	16 See, Touch and Enjoy: Newham University Hospital's Nostalgia Room
	17 Measuring the 'Difficult to Measure'
Part V: Knowledge Transfer in Object Handling
	18 How Accessible Are Museums Today?
	19 The British Museum in Pentonville Prison: Dismantling Barriers through Touch and Handling
	20 The Amenable Object: Working with Diaspora Communities through a Psychoanalysis of Touch
The Future
	21 Touch and the Value of Object Handling: Final Conclusions for a New Sensory Museology
Index