This article explores the use of performance in museum spaces as a way to encourage museum visitors to have embodied and experiential opportunities with exhibitions. Drawing on a South African museum theatre performance case study, called Unwrapped (2025), the notion of embodiment will be explored. The use of performance allows possibilities for participation and tangible interaction with the displayed items encouraging a different encounter with the museum exhibitions, rather than only prioritising sight. Museum theatre, thus, encourages a three-dimensional experience of the museum space, which the digital cannot fully create, by filling the space with multiple bodies all sharing in the present moment as they engage with museum narratives, objects, and new memories.
