What Is a Museum?: Perspectives from National and International Museum Leaders
Autor The United States National Committee of the International Council of Museums Editat de Kate Quinn, Alejandra Peña Gutiérrezen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iun 2022
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:
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? How can museums not only chronicle the past, but depict the present and become touchstones for the future of their communities?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
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781538167809
ISBN-10: 1538167808
Pagini: 226
Ilustrații: 11 b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1538167808
Pagini: 226
Ilustrații: 11 b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 154 x 228 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Forward
Preface
By: Kate Quinn
Epigraph
Part One: What is a Museum?
Chapter 1: Overview
By Alejandra Peña Gutierrez
Chapter 2: Public Trust at American Museums Today: Observations and Priorities
By Thomas Loughman
Chapter 3: How Do We Center People in Museums?
By Elaine Heumann Gurian
Chapter 4: Museums Must Be More: : ICOM's Definition of "Museum" Needs to Take into Account How the Field Has Changed and Where It Is Heading
By W. Richard West
Part Two: Safe Places or Social Spaces?
Chapter 5: Safe Places or Social Spaces?
By Diana Pardue
Chapter 6: On Museums and Place: Alejandra Peña Gutierrez with Andrés Roldán
Chapter 7: Yes, And: Museums as Safe Places AND Social Spaces
By Linda Norris
Chapter 8 :Crossing Museum Boundaries: From Gallery Space to Protest Place
By Ihor Poshyvailo
Part Three: The Function of Collecting
Chapter 9: The Functions of Collecting: An Inquiry
By William Eiland
Chapter 10: KonMari in the Museum: Collecting Front, Center and Back
By Danielle Kuijten
Chapter 11: On Museums and Collecting: Kate Quinn with Anne Pasternak
Chapter 12: Beyond Colonial Collecting
By Tukufu Zuberi
Part Four: The Whiteness of Museums
Chapter 13: The Whiteness of Museums
By Lyndel King
Chapter 14: What Makes a Museum, A Museum: From the African Experience
By George Okello Abungu
Chapter 15:The Work is Never Done: Reckoning and Reparation in Museums
By Christopher Bedford
Chapter 16: "Dysmantaling" a Museum
By Christina Woods
Part Five: Museums as Influencers
Chapter 17 :Museums as Influencers
By Diana Pardue
Chapter 18: To Be of Influence Starts with Being Open to Influence
By Kelly McKinley
Chapter 19: Can a New Definition Convert Museums into Influencers?
By Lauran Bonilla-Merchav and Bruno Burlon Soares
Chapter 20: Redefine the Museum: Making a Case for Embracing Our Inner Agent of Change
By Lisa Sasaki
Part Six: Crisis: Environmentalism, Sustainability and Museums
Chapter 21: Beyond Crisis: Museums and Sustainability
By William Eiland
Chapter 22: Imagining Another World at the National Public Housing Museum
By Lisa Yun Lee
Chapter 23: Weaving New Narratives: Museums and Sustainable Futures
By Morien Rees
Chapter 24: The Museum's Role in the Global Effort to Create a World Where Everyone and Everything Can Thrive
By Sarah Sutton
Part Seven: What Now/Now What?
Chapter 25: Seizing the Moment: The Evolution of the 21st- Century Museum
By Lonnie G. Bunch, III
Index
About the Contributors
About ICOM-US
About the Editors
Preface
By: Kate Quinn
Epigraph
Part One: What is a Museum?
Chapter 1: Overview
By Alejandra Peña Gutierrez
Chapter 2: Public Trust at American Museums Today: Observations and Priorities
By Thomas Loughman
Chapter 3: How Do We Center People in Museums?
By Elaine Heumann Gurian
Chapter 4: Museums Must Be More: : ICOM's Definition of "Museum" Needs to Take into Account How the Field Has Changed and Where It Is Heading
By W. Richard West
Part Two: Safe Places or Social Spaces?
Chapter 5: Safe Places or Social Spaces?
By Diana Pardue
Chapter 6: On Museums and Place: Alejandra Peña Gutierrez with Andrés Roldán
Chapter 7: Yes, And: Museums as Safe Places AND Social Spaces
By Linda Norris
Chapter 8 :Crossing Museum Boundaries: From Gallery Space to Protest Place
By Ihor Poshyvailo
Part Three: The Function of Collecting
Chapter 9: The Functions of Collecting: An Inquiry
By William Eiland
Chapter 10: KonMari in the Museum: Collecting Front, Center and Back
By Danielle Kuijten
Chapter 11: On Museums and Collecting: Kate Quinn with Anne Pasternak
Chapter 12: Beyond Colonial Collecting
By Tukufu Zuberi
Part Four: The Whiteness of Museums
Chapter 13: The Whiteness of Museums
By Lyndel King
Chapter 14: What Makes a Museum, A Museum: From the African Experience
By George Okello Abungu
Chapter 15:The Work is Never Done: Reckoning and Reparation in Museums
By Christopher Bedford
Chapter 16: "Dysmantaling" a Museum
By Christina Woods
Part Five: Museums as Influencers
Chapter 17 :Museums as Influencers
By Diana Pardue
Chapter 18: To Be of Influence Starts with Being Open to Influence
By Kelly McKinley
Chapter 19: Can a New Definition Convert Museums into Influencers?
By Lauran Bonilla-Merchav and Bruno Burlon Soares
Chapter 20: Redefine the Museum: Making a Case for Embracing Our Inner Agent of Change
By Lisa Sasaki
Part Six: Crisis: Environmentalism, Sustainability and Museums
Chapter 21: Beyond Crisis: Museums and Sustainability
By William Eiland
Chapter 22: Imagining Another World at the National Public Housing Museum
By Lisa Yun Lee
Chapter 23: Weaving New Narratives: Museums and Sustainable Futures
By Morien Rees
Chapter 24: The Museum's Role in the Global Effort to Create a World Where Everyone and Everything Can Thrive
By Sarah Sutton
Part Seven: What Now/Now What?
Chapter 25: Seizing the Moment: The Evolution of the 21st- Century Museum
By Lonnie G. Bunch, III
Index
About the Contributors
About ICOM-US
About the Editors
Recenzii
Only a decade ago, few would have questioned the legitimacy of museums. Today few would
unhesitatingly rush to their defense. This seismic shift in opinion emanates from a dissipation of
trust in institutions generally, exacerbated by tone-deafness among cultural leaders. This volume
of thoughtful essays distills the obligations facing museum leaders in the present and future, from implementing fair labor practices to embracing surrounding communities, to combating climate change. It will serve as an essential primer to understand museums-and, we may hope,
stimulate more enlightened attitudes and behaviors on the part of those in charge.
The outset of 2020's dual pandemics - a global public health pandemic, and U.S. racial equity and justice pandemic that has seen reverberations across the globe - remain unresolved in 2022. These revealing essays highlight immediate urgencies across the museum field - urgencies that both historically and still continue to unequally burden our colleagues, stakeholders, conventional audiences/communities as well as those who have historically been ignored. But contributors equally inform this volume with their experiential 'long view', making it clear that these issues are not new at all, that the cultural and financial dominance of a single "museum" model cannot reflect 21st century realities. What IS new at present is the depth and the globalized breadth of a demand for change, from both within the field and from broad sectors of our publics.
In provocative, thoughtful, and probing essays, practitioners from around the world explore the potential for museums, as guardians of our shared human heritage, to be agents of transformation. While perspectives vary, the common thread is a passionate call for museums to use their platforms as safe and trustworthy spaces to inspire learning - and motivate action - about the most critical issues of our time: social equity, economic justice, and the future of our planet. As "stewards of global memory" (to borrow a phrase from author Morien Rees), museums are uniquely positioned to deliver meaningful encounters with the authenticity of human experience. They are communal places for discovery (and reminders) of the essence of what makes us human - in all its variety and complexity - so that we can better understand ourselves and our potential, indeed our obligation, to create a better and truly sustainable future for the generations that will follow us.
What is a Museum? is an essential read for both emerging and seasoned museum professionals alike. At once scholarly and accessible, it provides a range of thoughtful essays that capture the breadth and depth of current thinking in this field. Driven by ICOM's United States National Committee, and written primarily for an American audience, this work nevertheless pulls together a broad geographic range of authors, from ICOM's deep pool of thought leaders. Its response to conversations about the definition of museums is timely. In a world that increasingly needs the kind of positive influence that museums can provide, considerations of topics such as repatriation, sustainably and social justice are particularly relevant. As Lonnie Bunch (Chapter 25) says in his final remarks '.museums of all kinds have the obligation to use our expertise and platforms for the greater good. We can and must reach more people, be more relevant to their lives, and have a more profound impact.' This book is an important contributor to that vision.
unhesitatingly rush to their defense. This seismic shift in opinion emanates from a dissipation of
trust in institutions generally, exacerbated by tone-deafness among cultural leaders. This volume
of thoughtful essays distills the obligations facing museum leaders in the present and future, from implementing fair labor practices to embracing surrounding communities, to combating climate change. It will serve as an essential primer to understand museums-and, we may hope,
stimulate more enlightened attitudes and behaviors on the part of those in charge.
The outset of 2020's dual pandemics - a global public health pandemic, and U.S. racial equity and justice pandemic that has seen reverberations across the globe - remain unresolved in 2022. These revealing essays highlight immediate urgencies across the museum field - urgencies that both historically and still continue to unequally burden our colleagues, stakeholders, conventional audiences/communities as well as those who have historically been ignored. But contributors equally inform this volume with their experiential 'long view', making it clear that these issues are not new at all, that the cultural and financial dominance of a single "museum" model cannot reflect 21st century realities. What IS new at present is the depth and the globalized breadth of a demand for change, from both within the field and from broad sectors of our publics.
In provocative, thoughtful, and probing essays, practitioners from around the world explore the potential for museums, as guardians of our shared human heritage, to be agents of transformation. While perspectives vary, the common thread is a passionate call for museums to use their platforms as safe and trustworthy spaces to inspire learning - and motivate action - about the most critical issues of our time: social equity, economic justice, and the future of our planet. As "stewards of global memory" (to borrow a phrase from author Morien Rees), museums are uniquely positioned to deliver meaningful encounters with the authenticity of human experience. They are communal places for discovery (and reminders) of the essence of what makes us human - in all its variety and complexity - so that we can better understand ourselves and our potential, indeed our obligation, to create a better and truly sustainable future for the generations that will follow us.
What is a Museum? is an essential read for both emerging and seasoned museum professionals alike. At once scholarly and accessible, it provides a range of thoughtful essays that capture the breadth and depth of current thinking in this field. Driven by ICOM's United States National Committee, and written primarily for an American audience, this work nevertheless pulls together a broad geographic range of authors, from ICOM's deep pool of thought leaders. Its response to conversations about the definition of museums is timely. In a world that increasingly needs the kind of positive influence that museums can provide, considerations of topics such as repatriation, sustainably and social justice are particularly relevant. As Lonnie Bunch (Chapter 25) says in his final remarks '.museums of all kinds have the obligation to use our expertise and platforms for the greater good. We can and must reach more people, be more relevant to their lives, and have a more profound impact.' This book is an important contributor to that vision.