O dezbatere actuală - muzeele și bunăstarea
A Current Debate - Museums and Well-being
Author(s): Gabriela VilăuSubject(s): Anthropology, Museology & Heritage Studies, Preservation, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Applied Sociology, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Editura Universul Academic (SC GOOD LUCK SRL)
Keywords: wellbeing; health; social prescribing; museum on prescription; handling museum objects
Summary/Abstract: Well-being is not just a buzzword, it is a complex concept that has become widely used in the museum sector. In this article we are trying to identify how museums can contribute to the wellbeing of individuals, especially for those with a range of health condition (mental health service users, people with dementia or older people). As a reliable community asset, museums can be embedded into social prescribing schemes as a specific way to provide benefits for those people who I have already indicated. There is increasing evidence linking museum object handling sessions to individual wellbeing. Hence, museums bring unique value to public health interventions, more specifically, tactile engagement with museum artefacts has therapeutic effects on participants.
Journal: Revista Muzeelor
- Issue Year: 1/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 7-26
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Romanian