Museum Texts

<p>Answering key questions in the study of how museums communicate Louise Ravelli provides a set of frameworks to investigate the complexities of communication in museums:</p><p>* What is an appropriate level of complexity for a written label?<br>* Why do some choice in language make a more direct relation to visitors?<br>* Is there a correct way of presenting a particular view of content?<br>* How do design practices contribute to the overall meanings being made?</p><p>The frameworks enhance the way we critically analyze and understand museums text both in the sense of conventional – written texts in museums – and in an expanded sense of the museum as a whole operating as a communicative text.</p><p>Using a wide range of examples Ravelli argues that communication contributes fundamentally to what a museum is who it relates to and what it stands for.</p><p>Not only museum studies and communications studies students but also professionals in the field will find <em>Museum Texts </em>an indispensable guide on communication frameworks.</p>