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Through the eyes of a hollywood: Museums depicted through Fictional film, literature and its effect on the visitor experience
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Forstrom, Melissa
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Spring 2025
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2025
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This piece explores the positive and negative effects of visitor experience based on Hollywood's perpetuated ideas within film and literature. It also delves into the intersections between cultural institutions and cultural representation as portrayed in Hollywood films and literature, examining how elements such as film aesthetics, narrative construction, and audience engagement contribute to the creation of fictionalized, and often misleading, ideas along with the tourism industry. Through a critical analysis of these portrayals alongside the historical context of museum education, this study aims to understand how media not only molds public expectations but also plays a part in enhancing or distorting the museum-going experience.Using the institutional space as a playground for developing plots and locations. These forms of media construct narratives that can significantly influence how individuals imagine and interpret museum spaces before ever stepping inside one.
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