THE VISITOR’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DISCURSIVE SPACES OF THE MUSEUM

Abstract

The museum, detected as a media in which the communication act is taking place in the informal framework of rhetorical, playful or successful discursive spaces, represents a viable alternative of leisure time, both as a single person and as a couple, with family or friends. In this place, the visitor is learning, discovering, entertaining, relaxing, interacting, and is fulfilled on personal level, living a unique experience determined by the interaction between the personal, the social and the physical context. The cognitive and emotional response of the visit is also sustained by the “interpretation assistances” presented to the visitor by the museum, doubled by the experience and prior knowledge of the visitor, which cumulated, outline the premise of further visits or the custom of spending leisure time at the museum.

Keywords

• visitor
• museum
• relation
• education
• communication