Eleventh International Conference on The Inclusive Museum

Abstract

For a museum, both the building fabric and exhibitions embody much of its history, stories, and concerns. They form a storied layout inscribed on the walls and the floors, and in the meanwhile create an immersive and intuitive experience for audiences. Compared to the novel, drama, film, and computer game, the narratives in a museum are real, alive, and driven by collective memories, evolving with power. This paper takes spatial narratives as the approach to reflect the museum narration in China of the last sixty years when there has been dramatic and intensive culture changes. This brings up the question, how social media will impact museum narration in the future? How would the museum space be transformed by the visible or invisible online world? How would such new coded spaces affect the visitor’s perception?