This book addresses the link between visual literacy - people's ability to interpret and
skillfully use images - and art museums. Art museums invite you to look at objects in different
ways. They stimulate your visual curiosity give you visual satisfaction and allow the visual
to merge with other sensory experiences. All of this makes art museums potentially the ideal
learning environments for acquiring visual literacy skills.But how should an art museum
stimulate visual literacy in practice? How can it actually become such an ideal learning place?
How can it spark visitors' visual literacy and increase their knowledge about it? In this book
a wide range of authors from different parts of the world offer their answers. As researchers
curators and educators they provide crucial theoretical insights and reflect on real-life
examples.
