Multidirectional and Multilevel Models of Museum Enjoyment and Use between Spatial Narration and Multisensory Perceptual Experience

Abstract

The paper reports the critical-analytical investigation on existent models and processes of enjoyment and use in the field of cultural heritage, combining space perception and experimentation, fostering knowledge transfer to a wide audience, multisensory cultural experience and interactive participation with the aim of enhancing the current models. The acquisition of knowledge from different disciplinary cores – design, archaeology, physics, cognitive sciences, computer science, electronics, art history – allowed tracing the ongoing transformations and obtaining an overview of the current models of fruition both nationally and internationally. The challenge will be to give further emphasis to the improvement of current models and to guide the future design of interactive enjoyment and use by bringing together the various aspects analysed in order to return meaningful and customized narratives based on the users’ needs, through perceptual, immersive, and multisensory experiences in the spatial dimension of the project, thus engaging the user at multiple levels.