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place within the museum (Imai 2003: 118). It is worth asking what exhibitory
forms would be adequate to an exhibition practice which did not set out to
control or shape visitor experience in order to inculcate certain values, but
instead to connect with the lived experience of visitors on a sensory as well as
an intellectual level. Perhaps to consider museums and exhibitions as media is
less to do with how much technical reproduction replaces artefacts, and
more about the extent to which these are spaces capable of articulating lived
experience, as well as compensating for it with illusions.

Further reading

Hein, H. (1986) The Exploratorium: The Museum As Laboratory. Washington DC:
Smithsonian Institution Press.
Hein, H. (2000) The Museum in Transition: A Philosophical Perspective. Washington
DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Macdonald, S. (ed.) (1998) The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture. London:
Routledge.
Rectanus, M. W. (2002) Culture Incorporated: Museums, Artists and Corporate
Sponsorships. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota.