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Museums between heaven and earth

Current trends – future realities

Seminar Muuseumi Piirid24-25 Septembril 2007

Narva

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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act I, Scene 5, v. 166-167)

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Sustainability

After Gosling 2000 accountability community investment financial sustainability environmental sustainability relevance

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Sustainability

Sustainability involves change

This change may be radical

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Sustainability

Forces of change (case study Netherlands) object bulimia new heritage Experience Economy Web 2.0 performance measurement cultural pluralism

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Sustainability

Re-thinking parameters and paradigms

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heritage

functions

institution

society

basic parameters

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heritage

functions

institution

society

conceptualising the museum

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heritage

functions

institution

society

constraints

internal external

institutional

historical social

professional

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parameter: institution

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parameter: institution

                                               

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A museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their environment.

International Council of Museums

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A museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their environment.

means

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A museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their environment.

purpose

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Museums enable people to explore collections for inspiration, learning and enjoyment.

They are institutions that collect, safeguard, and make accessible artefacts and specimens, which they hold in trust for society.

Museums Association 1998

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Our mission is to help people determine their place in the world and define their identities, so enhancing their self-respect and their respect for others.

Tynes & Wear Museums, Newcastle (U.K.)

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heritage

functions

institution

society

basic parameters

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basic parameter: society

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basic parameter: functions

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Kathy Gee 1995

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Kathy Gee 1995

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“Our mission is to help create, and make accessible, a European cultural information landscape as an integral part of the Information Society. Our priority is to stimulate and support cultural memory organisations in research and development actions targeted on the use of state-of-the-art technologies to provide innovative networked services. This means supporting the development of creative technology applications which will open up Europe’s warehouses of cultural content”.

Cultural Heritage Applications Unit of the Directorate-General Information Society of the European Community

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basic parameter: heritage

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Kathy Gee 1995

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Musée de Civilisation, Québec (Canada)

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MuseumgoudA

Municipal Museum Gouda

Collection profile: emancipation religions (roman-catholicism – protestantism)

workers (workers – artisans – designers – artists)

women (female artists)

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collection development

selection:

• collecting (accessioning)

• disposal (de-accessioning)

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heritage

functions

institution

society

constraints

internal external

institutional

historical social

professional

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Conference “Limits to growth” (Amsterdam, 29-30 Nov. 1999)

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collection development

“Nothing gets lost”

Collection Netherlands

- exclusive option

- inclusive option

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collection development

Concerns: historicity of collection interpretation of collection items

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collection development

Solutions: artist interventions Web 2.0 cultural biography networking

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Web 2.0

User generated content Wikipedia Flickr YouTube Second Life

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Web 2.0

access representation participation

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Web 2.0

virtual museums web rings communities digital co-curatorship social tagging

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cultural biography

“Locative narrative”

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Rene Rivard 1984

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networking

museums – archives – libraries ex situ – in situ professional collectors – private collectors professionals – “source communities”

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Kathy Gee 1995

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Kathy Gee 1995

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