Zusammenfassung
What makes a museum, a museum in the 21st century? This is a transformative moment in the history of museums. Traditionally, the museums have been defined by the functions of collecting, preserving, documenting, researching, exhibiting and in other ways, communicating and interpreting evidence of human culture and history for the benefit of everyone. But what is the future of museums in a fast-changing world of economic uncertainty, social disruption, health challenges and climate change? Can museums reflect the accountability and transparency under which they are expected to acquire and use their material, financial, social, and intellectual resources?
What Is a Museum? Perspectives from National and International Museum Leaders shares perspectives from dedicated professionals investigating how museums can meet their ethical, political, social, cultural, and environmental responsibilities in the years to come. In a series of essays, well-known leaders in the museum sector and related fields contribute to our understanding of the current and future challenges facing museums around the world. ICOM-US Co-Chair and Secretary of the Smithsonian, Lonnie G. Bunch III, summarizes the issues and provides guidance for the future of museums.
Questions explored include:
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What lessons have we learned from the needs of the communities we claim to serve and how can we better adapt to shift our priorities in a faster and more efficient way?
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How can museums not only chronicle the past, but depict the present and become touchstones for the future of their communities?
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In a world aimed towards political correctness, how do we address collections resulting from power and colonization?
This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in why museums matter today, what their future holds, and how to change them
Schlagworte
Museum Management Historic Houses Science Museums History Museums Museum Definition International Council of Museums Arts Management Children’s Museums Cultural OrganizationsKeywords
museums arts art museums- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 129–156 Part Six Crisis 129–156
- 175–192 Index 175–192
- 193–204 About the Contributors 193–204
- 205–207 About the Editors 205–207
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- „... statehood; Roldán explains the significant influence a community-centered science museum had in the ...” „... , Colombia’s largest sci-ence museum, aquarium, and planetarium. Roldán works with his team on the creation of ...” „... informally populated neighborhood. The origin of our science museum was very different from the traditional ...”
- „... profound way.MUSEUMS APPLY SCIENCE TO OUR BIGGEST PROBLEMSMuseum professionals stepped up in myriad ways to ...” „... Center Houston, the New York Hall of Science, and the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation ...” „... . Collections will always be the foundation of museum scholarship, science, exhibitions, and education. But the ...”
- „... ; institutes, 95–100; museum, 12, 53, 80–82, 94; repository, 65; science and, 33; Western, 94; White, 96, 98 ...” „... History and Culture, 166National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), 163National Museum ...” „... Unsafe Ideas? History and Science Museums, Hot Topics and Moral Predicaments,” 47safety, 29, 36, 109, 154 ...”
- „... worldview based on reason, science, and experimenta-tion supporting racist and sexist ideas, Western museums ...” „... . This may be because, for the most part (leaving aside the multimillions that major science museums have ...” „... address the perilous state of our planet, and natural his-tory and science museums are in a perfect place ...”
- „... HistoryBonnie W. Styles, executive director, Association of Science Museum DirectorsElizabeth Varner, adjunct ...” „... Museums 173MEMBERS EX-OFFICIODr. Eric Dorfman, director and CEO, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences ...” „... 171The United States National Committee of the International Council of MuseumsThe International ...”
- „... , chairman of the board of trustees of the Buffalo Museum of Science (United States), and George Salles ...” „... ) | ISBN 9781538167816 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Museums—Philosophy. Classification: LCC AM7 .W43 2022 ...” „... : The Whiteness of MuseumsChapter 13: Assymetries of Power: Museums and Whiteness 77 Lyndel King ...”
- „... understand the world and their place in it. Some museums do that through art, others through natural science ...” „... I served as deputy director from 2014 to 2019. OMCA is a museum of art, history, and natural science ...” „... and Sciences 128, no. 3 (1999): 229–58. 2. Joanne Cleaver, Doing Children’s Museums (Charlotte, VT ...”
- „... decision is particularly resonant with the so-cial mission of today’s museums:The climate crisis affects ...” „... makes all other positions possible in museums—from the cleaning staff to the care work of visitor ...” „... of Museums (AAM), the Network of European Museum Organizations (NEMO), and We Are Museums—on ...”
- „... , Colombia’s largest science museum, aquarium, and planetarium, Andrés Roldán works with his team on the ...” „... creation of com-pelling and innovative learning environments and museums for science and cultural ...” „... , Senegal (2018). He was vice president of International Council of Museums-US (ICOM-US), Kenya’s ...”
- „... Center People in Museums?Elaine Heumann GurianThe word “centering” and its root word —“center”—have had ...” „... between the museum’s collection (“something”) and the muse-How Do We Center People in Museums?Elaine ...” „... museum-specific. But Adams’s comments and their relevance went far beyond the NMAI, and my observations here do ...”
- „... 205About the EditorsKate Quinn believes that museums and the people in them have the power to make ...” „... change in society. She has been working and teach-ing in the museum field for almost two decades. For ...” „... fourteen years, until 2020, she served the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and ...”