The Making Sense documentary contains a long list of participants. Many has been influential or an inspiration to the museum industry at large. Below you fill find some of the participants in this documentary.
A lot of interresting research was done during the production of this documentary. Besides countless hours consuming youtube video's, talking to many experts and specialists, we also took the time to consume many books and reports regarding our topics of choise. Here is a complete overview of the publications consumed or used as inspiration during production.
| Publication | Author(s) | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | The NEMO reading corner | Several - NEMO (ne-mo.org) |  |
| 1 | The Future of Museums | Bast, Gerald, Carayannis, Elias G., Campbell, David F. J. (Eds.) | |
| 2 | Using Museums as an Educational Resource: An Introductory Handbook for Students and Teachers | Graeme K. Talboys | |
| 3 | Museum, Media, Message (Museum Meanings) | Eilean Hooper-Greenhill | |
| 4 | Museum Communication and Social Media: The Connected Museum (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) | Kirsten Drotner, Kim Christian Schrøder | |
| 5 | Towards the Museum of the Future: New European Perspectives (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management) | Roger Miles, Lauro Zavala | |
| 6 | The Witness as Object: Video Testimony in Memorial Museums (Museums and Collections) | Steffi de Jong | |
| 7 | Forward Planning: A Handbook of Business, Corporate and Development Planning for Museums and Galleries | Timothy Ambrose, Sue Runyard | |
| 8 | Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema | Haidee Wasson | |
| 9 | Museums, Media And Cultural Theory (Issues in Cultural & Media Studies) | Michelle Henning | |
| 10 | Scientific Knowledge Communication in Museums (Research for Development) | Alberto Rovetta, Edoardo Rovida | |
| 11 | Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art | Bruce Altshuler | |
| 12 | The Museum Is Open (Contact Zones) | Andrea Meyer (Author), Benedicte Savoy | |
| 13 | Re-Imagining the Museum: Beyond the Mausoleum (Museum Meanings) | Andrea Witcomb | |
| 14 | Post Critical Museology | Andrew Dewdney | |
| 15 | Art and Its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium | Andrew McClellan | |
| 16 | Museums and Higher Education Working Together: Challenges and Opportunities | Jos Boys, Anne Boddington | |
| 17 | Museum Experience Design: Crowds, Ecosystems and Novel Technologies | Arnold Vermeeren, Licia Calvi, Amalia Sabiescu | |
| 18 | The Art of Museum Exhibitions: How Story and Imagination Create Aesthetic Experiences | Leslie Bedford | |
| 19 | Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays | Tony Bennett | |
| 20 | Museums and Design Education: Looking to Learn, Learning to See | Rebecca Reynolds, Beth, Ms Cook, Catherine, Ms Speight, Rebecca, Ms Reynolds | |
| 21 | Interpreting Art in Museums and Galleries | Christopher Whitehead | |
| 22 | Museum and Archive on the Move | Oliver Grau | |
| 23 | Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (Media and Society) | Daniel Sherman, Irit Rogoff | |
| 24 | Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries: Animating Social, Cultural and Institutional Change | Darlene E. Clover, Kathy Sanford, Lorraine Bell | |
| 25 | Open Conversations: Public Learning in Libraries and Museums by David Carr | David Carr | |
| 26 | Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries | David Carrier | |
| 27 | Museum Exhibition: Theory and Practice | David Dean | |
| 28 | Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art (Cultural Memory in the Present) | Didier Maleuvre | |
| 29 | Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums | Edward P. Alexander, Mary Alexander | |
| 30 | Museums and Education: Purpose, Pedagogy, Performance (Museum Meanings) | Eilean Hooper-Greenhill | |
| 31 | The Manual of Museum Management | Gail Dexter Lord, Barry Lord | |
| 32 | Learning in the Museum (Museum Meanings) | George E. Hein | |
| 33 | Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture | George W. Stocking Jr. | |
| 34 | The User Perspective on Twenty-First-Century Art Museums | Georgia Lindsay | |
| 35 | Heritage, Museums and Galleries | Gerard Corsane | |
| 36 | Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials | Dr. Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, Brian L. Ott | |
| 37 | Redisplaying Museum Collections: Contemporary Display and Interpretation in British Museums | Hannah Paddon | |
| 38 | Museums, Ethics and Cultural Heritage | ICOM | |
| 39 | Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage | James Cuno | |
| 40 | New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction | Janet Marstine | |
| 41 | Museums and the Public Sphere | Jennifer Barrett | |
| 42 | Challenging History in the Museum: International Perspectives | Jenny Kidd, Sam Cairns, Alex Drago, Amy Ryall | |
| 43 | Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics New edition | Jenny Kidd | |
| 44 | The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development | J. Pedro Lorente | |
| 45 | Museum Learning | Jill Hohenstein | |
| 46 | Learning from Museums | John H. Falk | |
| 47 | Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience | John H. Falk | |
| 48 | Museum Management (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) | Kevin Moore | |
| 49 | The Representation of the Past: Museums and Heritage in the Post-Modern World | Kevin Walsh | |
| 50 | Museums and Source Communities | Alison K. Brown | |
| 51 | Learning on Display: Student-created Museums That Build Understanding | Linda D'acquisto | |
| 52 | 50 Museums to Blow Your Mind | Ben Handicott, Kalya Ryan | |
| 53 | Museum Texts: Comunication Frameworks (Museum Meanings) | Louise Ravelli | |
| 54 | Consumer Research for Museum Marketers: Audience Insights Money Can't Buy | Margot A. Wallace | |
| 55 | Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries: An International Reader | M. Xanthoudaki, L. Tickle, V. Sekules | |
| 56 | Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums | Martin R. Kalfatovic | |
| 57 | Museums: A Visual Anthropology (Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture) | Mary Bouquet | |
| 58 | Museum Marketing and Strategy: Designing Missions, Building Audiences, Generating Revenue and Resources | Neil G. Kotler, Philip Kotler, Wendy I. Kotler | |
| 59 | The Return of Curiosity: What Museums are Good For in the 21st Century | Nicholas Thomas | |
| 60 | The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum | Nina Burleigh | |
| 61 | The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space | Nina Levent, Alvaro Pascual-Leone | |
| 62 | Museums 2000: Politics, People, Professionals and Profit | Patrick Boylan | |
| 63 | Museum as Process: Translating Local and Global Knowledges (Museum Meanings) | Raymond Silverman | |
| 64 | Palace of Culture: Andrew Carnegie’s Museums and Library in Pittsburgh | Robert J. Gangewere | |
| 65 | Museum Management and Marketing (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) | Richard Sandell, Robert R. Janes | |
| 66 | Looking Reality in the Eye: Museums and Social Responsibility | Robert R. Janes | |
| 67 | Museum Thresholds: The Design and Media of Arrival (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) | Ross Parry, Ruth Page, Alex Moseley | |
| 68 | Museums, prejudice and the reframing of difference | Richard Sandell | |
| 69 | Museum Objects: Experiencing the Properties of Things (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies) | Sandra H. Dudley | |
| 70 | Museum Materialities | Sandra Dudley | |
| 71 | Perspectives on Object-Centered Learning in Museums | Scott G. Paris | |
| 72 | A Companion to Museum Studies | Sharon Macdonald | |
| 73 | Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum (Materializing Culture) | Sharon Macdonald | |
| 74 | The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture (Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management) | Sharon Macdonald | |
| 75 | Attention and Value: Keys to Understanding Museum Visitors | Stephen Bitgood | |
| 76 | Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums | Stephen T. Asma | |
| 76 | The Anatomy of a Museum: An Insider's Text | Steven Miller | |
| 77 | Museum Economics and the Community (New Research in Museum Studies) | Susan Pearce | |
| 78 | Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives | Susan Sleeper-Smith | |
| 79 | Museums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture | Susana Smith Bautista | |
| 80 | Fragments of the World: Uses of Museum Collections | Suzanne Keene | |
| 81 | Managing Conservation in Museums | Suzanne Keene | |
| 82 | Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions (Museum Meanings) | Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale | |
| 83 | Reshaping Museum Space (Museum Meanings) | Suzanne Macleod | |
| 84 | Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and the Intellectual Origins of the Museum of Modern Art (The MIT Press) | Sybil Kantor | |
| 85 | Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience (Routledge Research in Museum Studies) | Tiina Roppola | |
| 86 | Museum Basics: The International Handbook | Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine | |
| 87 | The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (Culture: Policy and Politics) | Tony Bennett | |
| 88 | How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture | Tonya Bolden | |
| 89 | Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research | Tula Giannini, Jonathan P. Bowen | |
| 90 | Planning Successful Museum Building Projects | Walter L. Crimm, Martha Morris, Carole L. Wharton | |