Interactive spaces in art museums

Together with the adoption of modern museology, object-oriented approach gave place to the audience-driven approach. Audience-oriented approach, has led to changes in and around the museum, besides applications and activities which foreground audiences were made. Technological advances and social transformations experienced by transition from industrial society to information society have also supported this change. Social role of the museums and their relation with society which change over time and opportunities of technological development changes the structure of the exhibitions by influencing the presentation methods and its techniques. It is seen that exhibition spaces are also subjected to change and interactive galleries, spaces for audience were created. In the created interactive galleries and spaces, process and the information obtained in the process come into prominence. In this thesis, it is aimed to contribute to the understanding of the display of interactive spaces in the physical context of art museums. In this context, It is targeted to collect data about the nature of interactive spaces in art museums and more specifically to gather data about the exhibition design strategies of art museums's interactive areas regarding the installation, display and interpretation of art objects for target audiences. In the scope of this thesis, by starting from the studies and approaches for galleries and exhibition areas in the interactive art museums, field research was conducted through questionnaire method. In the result of this research has been understood that these galleries and spaces which is mostly for families and children, arranging for educational needs and using various exhibition techniques and methods for providing experience and transferring of knowledge regarding to museum collection.