Interacting with Museum Spaces: Importance of Museum Studies in Art Education

Abstract

Museums are the reflection of past culture and skills. Museum as an institution serves as an archival of tangible sources of past history through displays and exhibiting the objects. It is necessary to know how museum as a space treats the young mind in terms of recollecting the past events through an object displayed. The communication between the object and the spectators reveals the identity of the museum piece displayed and the perseverance of the viewer. It is now necessary to know why and how a museum helps in art education. Museums are spaces that exhibits, conserves and preserves the objects collected from past. However, it is more than just preserving, conserving, archiving and exhibiting the historical objects. Such exhibits become to true cultural and historical identity and remark of past. Walking through these displays should make the visitors or the spectators time travel which enhances the exhibits and ads on to the value and importance of the object.