Designing immersion exhibits as border-crossing environments

Museum Management and Curatorship

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 323-336

  Mortensen, Marianne Foss ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cultural border crossing; Immersion exhibit; Museum exhibit design; Science museum exhibits; Visitor experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955746024     PISSN: 09647775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2010.498990     Document Type: Article

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