The museum as a Communicator: A semiotic analysis of the Western Australian Museum Aboriginal Gallery, Perth
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A dialectical virtual museum embraces the idea that no single narrative about an object is final; instead, it provides a platform for many partial narratives to intersect.
“A dialectical virtual museum embraces the idea that no single narrative about an object is final; instead, it provides a platform for many partial narratives to intersect, an idea supported by earlier semiotic scholars like Hodge and D'Souza, who showed that museum meanings are a result of complex interactions of signs [94].”
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- Authors
- Hodge, R., D’souza, W., & Rivière, G. H.
- Venue
- Museum International
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1979-12
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 251-267
- ISSN
- 1350-0775 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-0033
- OpenAlex
- W2004180992
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Museum International (publishedVersion)
- Murdoch University Research Portal (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Semiotics and Representation Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Libraries and Information Services
- Keywords
- museum communication, semiotics, Aboriginal art, Western Australian Museum, museum exhibitions, Aboriginal cultural heritage
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