How to Hack a Museum?

Şenyavaş T.

InSEA World Congress 2023 Fault Lines, Çanakkale, Türkiye, 4 - 08 Eylül 2023, cilt.0, sa.0, ss.1, (Özet Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 0
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Çanakkale
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1
  • Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

INSEA WORLD CONGRESS 2023

How to Hack a Museum?

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Paper No: B-117-0409.R1

Author: Tuğba Gürkan Şenyavaş

Museums need to keep their communication strategies up to date as transformative spaces for society and adopt innovative and creative approaches to communicating to the public, and with young people in particular. The #bursamüzehacklendi project is an educational activity designed to achieve this goal within the scope of Museum Education course. The project takes its conceptual starting point from the world-renowned street artist Banksy, who hacked leading museums by placing fake art objects.

During this project which was based on Banksy's example, students analysed the artefacts, artistic works, and exhibitions in seven museums in Bursa, produced new objects that were similar in style to items in the exhibition, and then placed the fake objects into the museums.

 Although the word "hacking" creates a negative perception, in this project the negative perception was used to arouse curiosity in society. After this stage, the “Bursa Müze” announced on its social media accounts that some museums in Bursa were hacked, and called on visitors to find the fake objects placed in the museums. The aim of this project was to draw attention to museums, encourage visitors to carefully explore the museum to find the fake objects, direct them to examine the works one by one, encourage students to produce objects that are compatible with their environment by examining the museums, and direct students to museums through an enjoyable activity. The study will present a qualitative approach to the contributions of the project to students and whether the intended goals have been achieved through document review and opinion forms.