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In this chapter, Boyd and Hughes delve further into the impact of new museology for curatorial practice, considering the nature of emotion and its role in the design and staging of exhibitions. The chapter concludes provocatively with a call for a new interdisciplinary conversation between museology/museum studies and cultural geography to assist in ‘bridging the gap’ between curating with emotion and evaluating emotion in the contemporary museum context.
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Boyd, C.P., Hughes, R. (2020). Exhibiting with Emotion. In: Emotion and the Contemporary Museum. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8883-5_2
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