(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. Second, it gives examples of books offering sensorial, spatial, hands-on and bodily engagements that educate children on art history via guided play. Thus, it presents how nonfiction picturebooks support understanding of art and museums through guided and embodied experience.

You can read the complete chapter written by Betül Gaye Dinç and Ilgım Veryeri Alaca in Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks: Theoretical and Analytical Approaches edited by Nina Goga, Sarah Hoem Iversen, and Anne-Stefi Teigland on Scandinavian University Press' website.