Democratising the Museum

Contents: Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel: The Challenge of Democratising the Museum - Pille Runnel/Taavi Tatsi/Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt: Who Authors the Nation? The Debate Surrounding the Building of the New Estonian National Museum - Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel: When the Museum Becomes the Message for Participating Audiences - Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel/Agnes Aljas: A Multi-Method and Multi-Site Interventionist Approach to Studying Audience Participation in Museums - Krista Lepik/Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt: Handicraft Hobbyists in an Ethnographic Museum - Negotiating Expertise and Participation - Linda Lotina: Analysis of Participatory Activities in the Museums in Latvia - Nico Carpentier: Facing the Death of the Author. Cultural Professional's Identity Work and the Fantasies of Control - Taavi Tatsi: Identity Struggles of Museum Professionals: Autonomous Expertise and Audience Participation in Exhibition Production - Taavi Tatsi/Agnes Aljas: Democratising Collections through Audience Participation: Opportunities and Obstacles - Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Agnes Aljas: Digital Cultural Heritage - Challenging Museums, Archives and Users - Nico Carpentier: Happily Lost in Virtual Space? - Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt/Pille Runnel: Increasing the Usability of the Museum: Four Studies - Pille Runnel/Krista Lepik/Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt: Visitors, Users, Audiences: Conceptualising People in the Museum.

Pille Runnel, ethnologist and PhD in Media and Communication, is a research director at the Estonian National Museum.
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt is an associate professor at the University of Tartu Institute of Journalism, Communication and Information Studies and research associate at the Estonian National Museum.