Museums, Identity and Family Practices

Museums, Identity and Family Practices locates museum participation and meaning making in the realm of everyday family practices, which are central to the understanding the role museums play in family social life.

Theano Moussouri is Professor of Museum Studies at UCL Institute of Archaeology. Previously, she worked at the University of Leicester in the UK and the University of Athens and the University of Thessaly in Greece. In the past, she was Audience Researcher at the Audience Research Unit of the Science Museum and served as Director of Audience Focus Inc.

1. Framing the family-museum relation; Part I Locating family practices vis-a-vis the museum; 2. Situating family social practice; 3. Conceptualising and studying families in the museum context; Part II Values shaping family museum participation; 4. The museum as list and the family list; 5. Expectations and visit paths; Part III - Family practices across time and space; 6. Family practices at the museum; 7. At home with the family; 8. The family in the social arena of the museum; 9. Inside-out and outside-in: Transforming the family-museums relation