Nineteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

Emotions are considered some of the most significant aspects of music, and the applicability of sound within museums has both practical and theoretical relevance (Loureiro et al. 2019). Background music has a significant impact on visitors, created during museum exhibitions, as seen in a recent study of the Laiho Memorial Museum in Taiwan, revealing that music is a consequential tool to enhance the atmosphere of a museum (Chen & Tsai, 2015). Employing appropriate stylistic features in music can help museums to evoke visitors’ emotions and enhance their artistic experiences. This research employs descriptive and interpretative framework methodologies, focusing on background film music repertoire as a platform for altering the experience, enhancing museum exhibitions, and retransforming ways museums showcase their art to visitors. This research looks at film music as a visitor-centric enhancement tool to develop a stronger museum interest from the audience and shows how film scoring strategies can help museums evoke appropriate emotions and align them with the thematics of the exhibitions while employing contemporary film music oeuvre to help understand audience experiences with a focus on combined listening and visual frameworks. The research implications will help museums understand audience perceptions and the music’s applicability to museums’ exhibitions and artifacts.