The discussion will focus on the potential as well as some of the best currently existing practices for facilitating a multisensory experience for museum visitors. Participants will discuss how new technologies and advancements could affect the museums of the future and whether they will be able to make the museum space more accessible to different groups of visitors.
The event is timed to coincide with the publication by Garage of the Russian translation of the book The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspective on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space—a collection of papers on understanding the meaning of tactile, auditory, spatial, olfactory, and gustatory sensory experience in museums of the present and future.
The discussion will be moderated by the scientific editor of the book, Nikita Bolshakov, candidate of sociology, senior lecturer at the Department of Sociological Research Methods at National Research University – Higher School of Economics, and senior researcher at HSE’s International Laboratory for Social Integration Research. He also curates accessibility and inclusion programs at the Museum of Cryptography.