From Transport to Travel: Contemporary Performance and Visitor Agency in a 21st Century Museum of Transport

研究背景：当代博物馆和遗产实践认识到策展，保护，展览和解释策略的重要性，这些策略允许对物质文化（物体和建筑物）进行多种阅读和使用。一个特别的挑战是，考虑博物馆和其他遗产地点由于自然原因通常非常固定的地点如何能够作为不同记忆和经验的储存库和刺激物，从而鼓励形成多样化和流动的文化特征。这种方法的关键是将遗产理解为一个持续的过程--以“表现”或经验为中心，而不是以人工制品为基础。该博士研究项目将通过实际实验，探索滨江博物馆作为成人和儿童的游戏，表演和仪式的空间，探讨这种方法的潜力。从历史上看，这些可能性在遗产地中一直没有得到充分的研究。新的滨江博物馆的位置、建筑风格、藏品、历史和职权范围的特殊性表明，它将为研究现代博物馆中当代戏剧和表演实践的潜力提供富有成效的案例研究，超越更明显的戏剧重演和现场演绎形式：- 作为一个与运动、流动和旅行有关的交通博物馆，它邀请以体验为中心和互动的，而不是以人工制品为基础的展览和解释形式。- 作为一个新的博物馆--一个由扎哈·哈迪德（Zaha Hadid）设计的标志性地标和目的地，也是克莱德河当前再生战略的核心--它必须与格拉斯哥作为贸易、运输和制造业中心的遗产及其当前的后工业化改造的相互竞争的叙述进行谈判。- 在搬迁到新的地点时，博物馆需要从以前的位置，每年吸引50万人次参观的家庭环境过渡到哈迪德建筑的当代环境。- 该博物馆代表了对格拉斯哥文化设施的一项重大财政投资，也是对该市广受欢迎、资源丰富和屡获殊荣的博物馆群的重要补充，它还旨在利用格拉斯哥在2014年主办英联邦运动会的机会，提高国家和国际对该市及其文化的兴趣。 宗旨和目标是：- 探索当代戏剧和表演实践的潜力，为博物馆游客参与制定新的战略，这是包容性的，富有想象力的和非指令性的。调查使用的做法，如游戏，仪式，讲故事和介导的性能作为模型的游客互动和代理。- 在一个交通博物馆中，测试基于表现和行动的方法对博物馆解说和展览的重要性。应用和优势：- 这项研究将使游客参与和互动的滨江博物馆内，这将影响未来提供的解释和学习计划，并将通知和影响整个格拉斯哥博物馆计划重新显示更好的理解。- 实验性的表演元素将在滨江博物馆和其他博物馆的服务中，特别应用于开发一种创新的现场口译方法。- 格拉斯哥博物馆的应用和好处将对更广泛的博物馆和文化遗产部门产生影响。该研究将探讨游客参与的理论方法的变化，这有可能制定政策和实践，将在整个行业产生共鸣。

Research Context: Contemporary museum and heritage practice recognises the importance of curation, conservation, exhibition and interpretation strategies which allow multiple readings and uses of material culture (objects and buildings). A particular challenge is to consider how the generally very fixed sites - for physical reasons - of museums and other heritage locations can function as repositories and stimuli for divergent memories and experiences, thus encouraging the formation of diverse and fluid cultural identities. Key to this approach is an understanding of heritage as an ongoing process - as 'performance' or experience-centred, rather than artefact-based. The doctoral research project will investigate, through practical experimentation, the potential of this approach by exploring the Riverside Museum as a space of play, performance and ritual for adults as well as for children. Historically, these possibilities have been underexamined in sites of heritage. The particularities of the new Riverside Museum's location, architectural style, collection, history and remit suggest that it will provide a fruitful case study for an investigation into the potential of contemporary theatre and performance practices, beyond the more obvious forms of dramatic re-enactment and live interpretation, in the modern museum: - As a museum of transport concerned with movement, mobility and travel, it invites experience-centred and interactive, rather than artefact-based, forms of exhibition and interpretation. - As a new museum - an iconic landmark and destination designed by Zaha Hadid and central to the River Clyde's current regeneration strategy - it must negotiate the competing narratives of Glasgow's heritage as a centre for trade, transport and manufacturing and its current post-industrial reinvention. - In moving to a new venue, the museum is required to navigate a transition from the homely surroundings of its former location, where it attracted 500,000 visits annually, to the insistently-contemporary environment of Hadid's building. - Representing a major financial investment in Glasgow's cultural provision and a significant addition to the city's cluster of widely popular, generously-resourced and award-winning museums, it is also intended to capitalise on Glasgow's hosting of the Commonwealth Games in 2014, and to increase national and international interest in the city and its culture. Aims and Objectives are to: - Explore the potential of contemporary theatre and performance practices in developing new strategies for museum visitor engagement that is inclusive, imaginative and non-prescriptive.- Investigate the use of practices such as play, ritual, story-telling and mediated performance as models for visitor interaction and agency. - Test the significance of performance and action-based approaches towards museum interpretation and exhibition in a museum of transport. Applications and benefits: - The research will enable a greater understanding of visitor engagement and interaction within the Riverside Museum, which will impact on the future provision of interpretation and learning programmes, and which will inform and influence planned redisplays across Glasgow Museums. - The experimental performance elements will have particular applications in developing an innovative approach towards live interpretation, both within Riverside Museum and in other museums in the service. - The applications and benefits for Glasgow Museums will have an impact across the wider museum and cultural heritage sector. The research will explore a change of theoretical approach to visitor engagement which has the potential to develop policy and practice that will resonate throughout the sector.