The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts has been awarded a grant to assess how emerging neuroscience research can enhance the museum experience.
The art museum has used the grant, which was awarded by the Barr Foundation, to hire Tedi Asher as a full-time neuroscientist researcher. It will also enable it to work with three consulting neuroscientists to publish recommendations for the wider museum sector.
The museum hopes that a deeper insight into emerging brain science, including the nature of perception, information processing and attention systems, will help it to create new interpretative and design strategies.
“Applying neuroscience research to museum experience design is an entirely new and tremendously exciting strategy, one that has already produced positive outcomes and new kinds of guidance for the presentation and interpretation of art and museum education,” said Dan Monroe, the Peabody Essex Museum’s director.
“We are deeply appreciative of the Barr Foundation’s support, which furthers our mission to create encounters with art, culture and creative expression that transform people’s lives by broadening their perspectives, attitudes, and knowledge of themselves and the wider world.”
The art museum has used the grant, which was awarded by the Barr Foundation, to hire Tedi Asher as a full-time neuroscientist researcher. It will also enable it to work with three consulting neuroscientists to publish recommendations for the wider museum sector.
The museum hopes that a deeper insight into emerging brain science, including the nature of perception, information processing and attention systems, will help it to create new interpretative and design strategies.
“Applying neuroscience research to museum experience design is an entirely new and tremendously exciting strategy, one that has already produced positive outcomes and new kinds of guidance for the presentation and interpretation of art and museum education,” said Dan Monroe, the Peabody Essex Museum’s director.
“We are deeply appreciative of the Barr Foundation’s support, which furthers our mission to create encounters with art, culture and creative expression that transform people’s lives by broadening their perspectives, attitudes, and knowledge of themselves and the wider world.”