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This chapter provides the first of two case studies of creative/arts-based research within a museum context. Boyd and Hughes describe and explain a research project that used a drawing method to better understand first-time visitor experiences of Rome’s Museo Laboratorio della Mente (Museum of the Mind). Their analysis of more than sixty drawings produced across two workshops garners insights about the museum’s novel and technologically-sophisticated exhibits as well as reflections on the drawing method itself.
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The authors acknowledge their anonymous participants and collaborators Pompeo Martelli (Museo Laboratorio della Mente ASL Roma 1), Sarah Bennett (Kingston University), Hester Parr (University of Glasgow), and Claudia Demichelis.
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Boyd, C.P., Hughes, R. (2020). The Museo Laboratorio della Mente. In: Emotion and the Contemporary Museum. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8883-5_3
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