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The Emotional Museum: Empowerment and Agency

How do you feel when you step into a museum? It’s rarely a simple answer.  Through ‘The Emotional Museum’, a team of University of Glasgow researchers untangle the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.  Moving beyond the labels and the glass cases, we ask: what do these objects really do to us?  From joy to exhaustion and from anger to ambivalence, join us as we explore the full spectrum of feelings that museums provoke.  What do our emotional responses to collections reveal about power, identity and belonging? And how might reckoning with these emotions help us build more honest and accountable museums?  In this episode, Caitlin, Salma and Zaki talk through empowerment and agency.

The Emotional Museum: Anger

How do you feel when you step into a museum? It’s rarely a simple answer.  Through ‘The Emotional Museum’, a team of University of Glasgow researchers untangle the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.  Moving beyond the labels and the glass cases, we ask: what do these objects really do to us?  From joy to exhaustion and from anger to ambivalence, join us as we explore the full spectrum of feelings that museums provoke.  What do our emotional responses to collections reveal about power, identity and belonging? And how might reckoning with these emotions help us build more honest and accountable museums?  In this episode, John, Taylar and Zaki tackle anger and rage.

The Emotional Museum: Joy

How do you feel when you step into a museum? It’s rarely a simple answer.  Through ‘The Emotional Museum’, a team of University of Glasgow researchers untangle the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.  Moving beyond the labels and the glass cases, we ask: what do these objects really do to us?  From joy to exhaustion and from anger to ambivalence, join us as we explore the full spectrum of feelings that museums provoke.  What do our emotional responses to collections reveal about power, identity and belonging? And how might reckoning with these emotions help us build more honest and accountable museums?  In this episode, Amina, John and Salma share thoughts on joy and playfulness.

The Emotional Museum: Exhaustion

How do you feel when you step into a museum? It’s rarely a simple answer.  Through ‘The Emotional Museum’, a team of University of Glasgow researchers untangle the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.  Moving beyond the labels and the glass cases, we ask: what do these objects really do to us?  From joy to exhaustion and from anger to ambivalence, join us as we explore the full spectrum of feelings that museums provoke.  What do our emotional responses to collections reveal about power, identity and belonging? And how might reckoning with these emotions help us build more honest and accountable museums?  In this episode, Amina, Caitlin and Fara explore exhaustion and confliction.

The Emotional Museum: Ambivalence

How do you feel when you step into a museum? It’s rarely a simple answer.  Through ‘The Emotional Museum’, a team of University of Glasgow researchers untangle the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.  Moving beyond the labels and the glass cases, we ask: what do these objects really do to us?  From joy to exhaustion and from anger to ambivalence, join us as we explore the full spectrum of feelings that museums provoke.  What do our emotional responses to collections reveal about power, identity and belonging? And how might reckoning with these emotions help us build more honest and accountable museums?  In this episode, Fara, John and Zaki discuss feelings of ambivalence.