Spring 2013: Meaning making revisited – American Alliance of Museums

From the President, Douglas Simpson
From the Editor, Gretchen Jennings
The NAME Lifetime Achievement Award for Janet Kamien
Exhibits Newsline, by Beth Redmond-Jones
What Do Visitors Mean By “Meaning”?, by Beverly Serrel, Matt Sikora and Marianna Adams
Making Sense of Experience: A Model for Meaning Making, by Ted Ansbacher
Museum Authority and Meaning Making in a Digital Era, by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner
Breaking Out of the Norm: Meaning Making in the Context of Everyday Museum Experience, by Dr. Joan M. E. Gaither and Genevieve Kaplan
Entrance Icons: Visual Meaning-Making in Museum Entrance Galleries, by Darcie MacMahon
Meaning Making Through Conversations about Science and Society, by R. Ostman, B. Herring, A. Jackson, I. Bennett and J. Wetmore
Object Lessons: Making Meaning from Things in History Museum, by Laura Burd Schiavo
Meaning Making in Nine Acts, by Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson
Commentary: Reflections on the Adolescence of Meaning-Making, by Lois H. Silverman
Nuts and Bolts: Enhancing Accessibility by Crowdsourcing an Exhibit App, by Beth Ziebarth and Nancy Proctor
Exhibition Studies: The Construction of Meaning, by Julianne Snider
Exhibition Critiques: MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Australia by T. Roberts, E. Rodley and B. Jensen
Book Review: The Museum Experience Revisited by John Falk and Lynn Dierking, reviewed by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
Sessions of Interest to NAME Members at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Alliance of Museums, Baltimore MD

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