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(Open-access) Interacting with Nonfiction Picturebooks in Art Museums
How would you represent this satyr mask from Roman period, Anatolia (2–3th century BC), Sadberk Hanım Museum Collection in your picturebook? How do museums or artists utilise nonfiction picturebooks to create multimodal engagements with art? Abstract This chapter analyses nonfiction picturebooks that ease children’s interactions in art museums as they practice meaning-making of the artworks. First, it examines relations between museums and picturebooks to explain art. Seco

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Reading, play, and critical engagement with cultural heritage: Associating children with Orientalist paintings through an interactive picturebook
"Ambassador's Map" is a picturebook project that foster children's engagements with Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation's Orientalist Paintings Collection in Pera Museum. Abstract This study examines how an interactive picturebook prototype facilitates children's exposure to a museum collection of artworks presenting cultural heritage in Istanbul, Turkey. Picturebooks foster children's creative, cultural, and critical explorations in museums. Many Human-Computer Interaction studie

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