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visitor meaning-making: a standalone construct

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visitormeaning-making1 CONSTRUCTVisitor meaning-makingSILVERMAN · MUSEUM STUDIES

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Museum studies

the view that museum visitors actively build personal meaning from exhibits through their own experiences and identities rather than absorbing a fixed message.

In museum studies, visitor meaning-making refers to the view that museum visitors actively build personal meaning from exhibits through their own experiences and identities rather than absorbing a fixed message. This meaning comes from Silverman (1995) in Curator: The Museum Journal.[1]

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  1. Silverman, L. H. (1995). Visitor Meaning‐Making in Museums for a New Age. Curator: The Museum Journal, 38(3), 161-170. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01052.x

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