Marta Šveb Dragija, an IRMO assistant and a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, professor Nina Hansen, PhD, and professor Martijn van Zomeren, PhD, published the research article titled Designing museum experiences for eudaimonic or hedonic well-being: insights from interviews with museum visitors in the journal Museum Management and Curatorship, which is indexed in the bibliographic databases Scopus and Web of Science.
This article investigates how the design of museum experiences is associated with the visitors’ well-being, drawing on psychological theories of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Through structured interviews conducted at a hedonically designed Museum of Chocolate and an eudaimonically designed Museum of Broken Relationships, authors explored the impact of different design approaches on visitors’ experiences and their hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. The hedonic museum, characterized by sensory engagement and personal enjoyment, stimulated mindfulness, restoration, and positive affect associated with visitors’ hedonic well-being. In comparison, the eudaimonic museum, emphasizing personal enrichment and reflection, promoted escapism, contemplation, and mixed affect, which was associated with visitors’ eudaimonic well-being. These insights carry significant implications for museum experience design, offering guidance on creating enriching experiences that prioritize visitors’ well-being in different ways.
The abstract is available at the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09647775.2024.2408239?scroll=top&needAccess=true
