Museums Today: Storytelling in Museums

Wednesday, November 29, 6pm EDT

Editor Adina Langer had a discussion of the book Storytelling in Museums. With chapters written by a diverse set of practitioners from across the museum field and around the world, the book explores the efficacy and ethics of storytelling in museums.

Storytelling in Museums shows how museums use personal, local and specific stories to make visitors feel welcome, while inspiring them to engage with new ideas and unfamiliar situations. The book also explores the responsibilities of museum practitioners toward the storytellers included in their narratives and how those responsibilities shift over time and manifest in different contexts.

The book’s 18 chapters represent a conversation among a diverse set of professionals for whom storytelling connotes their daily museum practice. As educators, collectors, curators, designers, marketers, researchers, planners and collaborators, the authors of this book consider the “real work” of storytelling from every angle.