Interactive museographic narratives

Abstract

This reflection article is a product of the study titled “La narrativa museográfica basada en el guión curatorial” (INV-ING-2368) funded by the Research Vice-Chancellor’s Office at Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (UMNG). Publications, comments, and interviews with experts related to the museum environment support this work. The article is organized as follows: The first section examines interactivity as a complement for interpretation and human mediation in museography from the standpoints of design and engineering. Such interactivity employs narratives as a structural component for the communication between the public and the exhibition. The second part analyzes museum disciplines and activities, as well as the roles of the staff that conduct them. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of curatorship and museography, the figure of the curator as a narrator, the museographer as the implementer of museum exhibitions, and the key role of the curatorial script for those endeavors. The conclusion is that interactive museographic narratives are developed by a combination of interdisciplinary knowledge that comes together in the curatorial statement created by the museum staff, and those narratives are structured as different discussion channels that promote interaction.