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Rachael Coghlan is a researcher at the Centre for Museum and Heritage Studies, Australian National University, and the CEO of Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre. With nearly two decades of leadership experience in Australia's museum sector, she specializes in visitor engagement strategies, exhibitions, and digital communications. Her research focuses on democratizing museum experiences through interpretivist methodologies, emphasizing visitor agency.
She curated the experimental exhibition Power of 1: Does your voice count? at the Museum of Australian Democracy, which applies participatory frameworks from Nina Simon's The Participatory Museum (2010). This project is now a case study analyzing the alignment of participatory rhetoric with actual outcomes in museum practices.
At ACHS 2016, Rachael participated in sessions titled Digital vs Tangible: How Museum Visitors Experience Participation and What It Means to Them and Democratizing the Museum: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Politics of Participation, alongside attending keynotes and roundtables on heritage futures and emotional pathways in cultural advocacy.
