How does a visit to an art museum make you feel? Full of vitality? Exhausted? Inspired? Or frustrated? (You call That Art? ) Researchers want to know. In the U.S. and elsewhere, more and more research is focused on the extent to which art museums promote a sense of happiness among their visitors—the vague term is that James O., professor and professor of education and director of education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Positive Psychology and professor of education and director of education. He notes that happiness and thriving not only means allowing “to keep a good mood,” but also gaining “a sense of compassion, feeling less isolated, and feeling more broadly about other people’s experiences.”
A spokeswoman for the organization said the American Museum Alliance is currently conducting three years of research to “help museums measure their social impact, which may include the health and well-being outcomes of visitors.” Fully functional galleries bring different people together to gain common experiences, which is the goal of researchers as well as museum officials to find ways to intensify the feeling of tourists becoming part of their daily activities.
The Advanced Art Museum in Atlanta, Georgia is conducting its own research on the issue, just received a National Art Research Grant from a $80,000 Art Research Fellowship to support a two-year health study to study the social, emotional, intellectual, intellectual, physical and mental impacts on social, emotional, physical and mental visits to a diverse adult population. The study was conducted in collaboration with the Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, and the Atlanta-based Arts and Health Research Company Performance Hypothesis, which would support protocols and data collection.
Barbara Steinhaus, a leading investigator in the study, told Observer that a 2019 report released by the World Health Organization found that people who attend art events or participate in group art events reduced social isolation by 17%. “We are looking at the impact of art museums on visitors and how people are physically, mentally, emotionally, intellectually and socially. Once you get there, you internalize what you are watching and the new ideas that come with it, but you also have an emotional reaction that resonates with a different “self”.”
All this may suggest that going to a museum or art is usually a form of therapy, and most of the research on museums and well-being refers to emotional, mental and physical health. Steinhaus himself teaches the art of health care courses, “focuses on using art for patients and health care workers. We engage in various artistic efforts to encourage the psychological and emotional well-being of health care workers. Art, poetry, music, these are ways of these things – these are all a way to provide a method of self-care for the spirit and spirit.”
However, Ruggieri warns not to equate happiness withNice. The former enables individuals to function well as individuals and society, while “health is temporary “care” that often seeks to relieve or prevent stress or other common illnesses.”
One might also ask whether it is important for museums to promote psychological (and physical) health. As the saying goes, isn’t art a goal to upset us rather than make us feel good about ourselves? If I look at Edvard Munch ScreamingShould I feel a sense of happiness, or an anxiety that an artist might think?
Stanhouse claims both feelings can coexist. When looking at a piece of art that is intended to be set, “an audience may feel a series of emotions, perhaps starting with anxiety, and it can also lead to a sense of unity. Everyone sometimes feels difficult emotions, including anxiety, so for some people, watching the visual scenes of art creates a visual scene that creates a visual scene in their minds, which may make the audience more and more comfortable and knowing some people's anxiety, they can also scream at the person who screams. From the experience it can be light in the dark.”
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For some, museums are a place to learn and be challenged – “force us to consider different from our own perspectives,” Susie Wilkening, a museum consultant and researcher in Seattle, told Observer. Many visitors love to face images and ideas that challenge their preconceived ideas. But for others, the museum is a breather–escape from daily life. Both experiences may give visitors a sense of happiness, although those seeking world protection may not encounter Pavelsky’s “cultivating advantages, meaning, positive state and traits” if they encounter artworks that seem to scream at contemporary social problems and question the audience’s screams of the elitism of such an institution first. The work of museum curators and educators may be to find ways to tell stories through art, at least to help visitors understand why some artists have created this. After all, understanding is an element of happiness.
Happiness is still a difficult concept to draw, and there is no reason to assume that art museums do better than zoos, opera houses or gymnasiums. Pawelski pointed out that happiness is not synonymous with “feeling good” because he gets a sense of happiness from his exercise (usually after the fact). “When I go to the gym, I always feel bad, and it's usually the opposite. I sweat, I think I'll die, but I know there's a beneficial effect on my muscles, my heart and my brain.”
