What if museums could harness the emotional and intellectual connections people have to personal and everyday objects to create richer visitor experiences? In this book, Elizabeth Wood and Kiersten Latham present the Object Knowledge Framework, a tool for using objects to connect museum visitors to themselves, to others, and to their world. They discuss the key concepts underpinning our lived experience of objects and how museums can learn from them. Then they walk readers through concrete methods for transforming visitor-object experiences, including exercises and strategies for teams developing exhibit themes, messages, and content, and participatory experiences.

Elizabeth Wood, Kiersten F. Latham

Introduction
Part 1: The Object
Chapter 1: Object Knowledge
Chapter 2: Origins of the Object Knowledge Framework

Part 2: Object Relationships
Chapter 3: Objects as Identity
Chapter 4: Objects as Revelation
Chapter 5: Objects as Reverence
Part 3: Object Transformations
Chapter 6: Using the Object Knowledge Framework
Chapter 7: Transformation through Design
Chapter 8: Transformation through Content
Chapter 9: Transformation through Participation
Chapter 10: The End is the Beginning
References
Index