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This book addresses the link between visual literacy – people’s ability to interpret and skillfully use images – and art museums. Art museums invite you to look at objects in different ways. They stimulate your visual curiosity, give you visual satisfaction, and allow the visual to merge with other sensory experiences. All of this makes art museums potentially the ideal learning environments for acquiring visual literacy skills.
But how should an art museum stimulate visual literacy in practice? How can it actually become such an ideal learning place? How can it spark visitors’ visual literacy and increase their knowledge about it? In this book a wide range of authors from different parts of the world offer their answers. As researchers, curators and educators they provide crucial theoretical insights and reflect on real-life examples.

Lode Vermeersch holds a Ph.D. in Educational Sciences and an advanced Master s degree in Cultural Studies. He currently is a research expert at HIVA-KU-Leuven (Research Institute for Work and Society of the University of Leuven). Lode joined HIVA-KULeuven in March 2007. Lode has also been affiliated with the Department of Educational Sciences at VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen. Lode has been involved in numerous research projects. Most of his research publications are in the fi eld of lifelong learning and non-formal adult education, arts and cultural education, museum education, cultural theory and cultural policy, literacy (visual literacy, cultural literacy, multiliteracies, low-literacy, etc.). His work is published in a range of edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Visual Literacy and the Arts Education Policy Review.

Ernst Wagner is working as lecturer and senior-researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Educated as an art-teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and graduated with a Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Munich, he had been teaching at schools for many years. At the Bavarian Institute for School Quality he was responsible for art, film and drama education. Ernst chaired the European Network for Visual Literacy in 2016 2017 and co-ordinated the development of the Common European Framework for Visual Literacy. His research is focused on Visual Literacy, Museum and Heritage Education/Art History, and Intercultural Communication. He has published over 300 books and chapters in seven languages.

Rainer Wenrich studied Art History, Philosophy and German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Painting/Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, achieved a Ph.D. on the topic of Art and Fashion in the 20th century. He is a Professor and Chair for Art Education and Art Didactics at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. He lectured as a Professor for Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. He is the author of articles and books in the field of art education and fashion studies. In 2016 he joined the editorial advisory board of The Journal of Dress History published by the Association of Dress Historians.