Creating Meaning in Museums: Conversational Strategies for Guided Tours

This practical handbook is a proposal for transforming museum tours. The target audience is museum guides, docents and interpreters who are interested in facilitating conversations about seen and unseen meanings in artworks, objects, and artifacts. The goal is to engage visitors in meaning-oriented inquiry which involves “doing” and not just “viewing” creative work.
Grounded in whole to part learning theory and best teaching practices, each chapter includes a tour “vignette” written as a “y...