A Once-in-a-Lifetime Visit: Exhibition Design and Public Participation at the Ranggawarsita Museum, Central Java

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10.2991/978-2-38476-503-4_10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Provincial Museum; Public Participation; Exhibition; Visitor

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze museum visits as a form of public participation. In addition, the management of collections and exhibition layouts, which tend to be static, is a reason for low public participation in provincial museums. Visits dominated by primary school visitors make museums less attractive to adults. Museum visitor studies are rarely conducted by museums, so museums still fail to attract adult visitors through public programmes. This study uses a historical method consisting of four stages, namely data collection through observation of exhibition layout and interviews with staff and visitors at the museum. Written sources were collected by tracing documents related to exhibition design and visitor data at the Ranggawarsita Museum. The next stage was criticism by comparing the data obtained with contemporary information, interpretation and writing. This study found that the exhibition layout, which tends to remain unchanged, results in visitors visiting only once, either during primary school or when accompanying their children to the museum. Adult visitors are not interested in visiting the museum because of the lack of socialization and public programs that involve adult visitors. The uniqueness of this study is that it considers museums not only as institutions that preserve the collective memory of the nation and function as government institutions, but also as public spaces for museum visitors.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Atika Kurnia Putri
AU  - Rafngi Mufidah
AU  - Olga S. Pratama
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/12/19
TI  - A Once-in-a-Lifetime Visit: Exhibition Design and Public Participation at the Ranggawarsita Museum, Central Java
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Culture and Sustainable Development (ICOCAS 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 77
EP  - 85
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-503-4_10
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-503-4_10
ID  - Putri2025
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