ABSTRACT

This paper explores the narratives of participants in museum community engagement projects in Scotland. Emphasis is placed on how taking part in museum community engagement projects can have a positive impact on the participants’ wellbeing. This qualitative study employed a dialogical research strategy, which involved careful and mindful choreography of the context and space within which interactions between researcher and participants emerged. Semi-structured walking interviews with five participants were conducted in the summer of 2019 at two museums in Glasgow: Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and The Lighthouse. All participants had taken part in at least one museum community engagement project in Glasgow. Participants’ narratives reveal the positive impacts that “caring spaces” engendered through museum community engagement work have on overall feelings of wellbeing, achieved through deep processes of critical reflection, which resulted in enhanced self-esteem and confidence, and a heightened awareness of participants’ situated ontology in the context of broader issues of social inequality and identities. Museum community engagement projects, when practiced and experienced as “spaces of care,” have a critical role in enhancing individual and social wellbeing amongst participants themselves, particularly in terms of identifying long-term educational and self-worth legacies.

摘要

本文探讨了苏格兰博物馆社区参与项目参与者的叙述。重点放在参与博物馆社区参与项目如何对参与者的福祉产生积极影响。这项定性研究采用了对话式研究策略，其中涉及对研究人员和参与者之间的互动出现的上下文和空间进行仔细和有意识的编排。2019 年夏天，在格拉斯哥的两个博物馆中对五名参与者进行了半结构化步行采访：Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum 和 The Lighthouse。所有参与者都至少参加了格拉斯哥的一个博物馆社区参与项目。参与者的叙述揭示了通过博物馆社区参与工作产生的“关怀空间”对整体幸福感产生的积极影响，这是通过深入的批判性反思过程实现的，从而增强了自尊和自信，并提高了参与者的意识在更广泛的社会不平等和身份问题的背景下定位本体论。博物馆社区参与项目，当作为“关怀空间”进行实践和体验时，在提高参与者自身的个人和社会福祉方面发挥着关键作用，特别是在确定长期教育和自我价值遗产方面。在更广泛的社会不平等和身份问题的背景下，提高了参与者对情境本体的认识。博物馆社区参与项目，当作为“关怀空间”进行实践和体验时，在提高参与者自身的个人和社会福祉方面发挥着关键作用，特别是在确定长期教育和自我价值遗产方面。在更广泛的社会不平等和身份问题的背景下，提高了参与者对情境本体的认识。博物馆社区参与项目，当作为“关怀空间”进行实践和体验时，在提高参与者自身的个人和社会福祉方面发挥着关键作用，特别是在确定长期教育和自我价值遗产方面。