Çocuk Müzelerinde Algı Faktörüne Bağlı Sergileme Düzenlemeleri

Abstract

Children’s physical, mental and social development are influenced by the characteristics of environment and spaces in which they live from the moment they are born. Although their participation rates are considerable, design of the social spaces are barely convenient for their physical and mental utilization. When designing the museum environment, it is expected to provide all kind of visitors salutiferous relation with an inclusive approach. Museums in which their visitors are mostly children, are not properly designed regarding their spatial features, equipment and exhibition layout. Although, since the 19th century, children museums have a considerable status around the world, they just recently became popular in Turkey. It seems to be crucial that children museums, built with the objective of improving their vision and knowledge, are designed for children in order to provide the entertaining museum visit and sustainable education. Thus, the main objective of this thesis is that offering a guideline for alongside providing children the entertaining and instructive environment, detecting spatial requirements for the children museums which were built in the past and continuing their service. Furthermore, it is aimed that this thesis will be utilized as a guideline for newly built children museums and to instruct regarding their spatial requirements. Within this study; the education model in children museums, the concept of children and their perception, the spatial characteristics of children museums and the understanding of exhibition are examined with their technical, aesthetic and psycho-social dimensions. Moreover, the study aimed to provide a guideline for children museums to be built in the future in Turkey. As a consequence of this thesis, a table for the spatial characteristics for the children museums and proposals for the existing museum structures will be provided.