Between knowledge and feeling. The Multi-method approach of the ARTEMISIA Project for the analysis of visitor's mood, emotion and behavior in the museum experience

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2025-12-22

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https://doi.org/10.13138/2039-2362/3978

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This study aims to provide a contribution to advance knowledge on the evaluation of visitors’ behavior in a museum context based on the approach developed within the ARTEMISIA project, which has been carried out at the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi (Rome, Italy). The approach involved the study of visitors’ trajectories through sensors, equipped with artificial intelligence internal functions, for checking visitors’ position and sight orientation in combination with user experience analysis and assessment of visit impact on emotional wellbeing and sense of connection with art. This approach allowed to identify different visitors’ experiential profiles and provided evidence of a positive association between improvement in their emotional wellbeing and visit time length. Overall, the findings lead to the definition of different approaches to museum fruition, with possible relevant implications in terms of the conception of museum exhibition and cultural marketing.

Questo studio fornisce un contributo alla valutazione del comportamento dei visitatori in un contesto museale, basato sull’approccio sviluppato dal progetto ARTEMISIA, svolto presso il Museo di Roma a Palazzo Braschi (Roma, Italia). L’approccio ha comportato lo studio delle traiettorie dei visitatori attraverso sensori, dotati di funzioni interne di Intelligenza Artificiale, per il controllo della posizione dei visitatori e dell’orientamento visivo in combinazione con l’analisi dell'esperienza dell'utente e la valutazione dell’impatto della visita sul benessere emotivo e sul senso di connessione con l’arte. Questo approccio ha permesso di identificare diversi profili esperienziali dei visitatori e ha fornito prove di un’associazione positiva tra miglioramento del loro benessere emotivo e durata della visita. Nel complesso, i risultati portano alla definizione di diversi approcci alla fruizione museale, con possibili implicazioni rilevanti in termini di concezione dell'esposizione museale e di marketing culturale.

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Marasco, A., Ceccarelli, S., Corazza, V., Cordova Garzon, A. J., Leopardi, L., Malatesta, S. G., … Palombini, A. (2025). Between knowledge and feeling. The Multi-method approach of the ARTEMISIA Project for the analysis of visitor’s mood, emotion and behavior in the museum experience. Il Capitale Culturale. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, (32), 873–908. https://doi.org/10.13138/2039-2362/3978