Museums and their Communities

Watson, Sheila

doi:10.4324/9780203944752

Cited by 115 publications

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“…Watson, 2007;Weil, 1999). While the nineteenth century museums imagined themselves as both pedagogic and benignly prescriptive (Bennett, 1995), the current museum field is concerned with reimagining a museum that is clearly relevant in today's society.…”

Section: Community Engagement Work In Museums: Policy Contexts and Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

Museums’ community engagement schemes, austerity and practices of care in two local museum services

Morse

Munro

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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In recent years geographers have paid attention to the practices and spaces of care, yet museums rarely feature in this body of literature. Drawing on research conducted with two large museum services -one in England, and one in Scotland -this paper frames museums' community engagement programmes as spaces of care. We offer insights into the practice of community engagement, and note how this is changing as a result of austerity. Our focus is on the routine, everyday caring practices of museum community engagement workers. We further detail the new and renewed strategic partnerships that have been forged as a result of cutbacks in the museum sector and beyond. We note that museums' community engagement workers are attempting to position themselves relative to a number of other institutions and organisations at the current moment. Drawing on empirical material from the two case study sites, we suggest that museums' community engagement programmes could be seen as fitting within a broader landscape of care, and we conceptualise their activities as expressions of progressive localism.

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Section: Community Engagement Work In Museums: Policy Contexts and Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

Museums’ community engagement schemes, austerity and practices of care in two local museum services

Morse

Munro

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…An increasing number of museums of cultural history pursue today a politics of positioning and establish themselves in terms of -authorities of recognition‖ [52]. In order to reach these goals, they have, during the last two decades, organized -third spaces‖, where individuals and groups are given the opportunity of crossing the barriers of belonging and of sharing their knowledge, know-how and experiences across cultural divides [53]. These third spaces serve as -contact zones‖ to use the expression coined by Marie Louise Pratt and later taken up by James Clifford [54,55].…”

Section: Participation and Collaborative Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Museums, Diasporas and the Sustainability of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Naguib

2013

Sustainability

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Abstract:This article is about the work of museums in constructing the intangible cultural heritage of migration and diasporas. I address the cultural dimension of sustainability and examine what happens to living traditions in migratory contexts, in particular, in contexts of international migrations, and consider different participatory approaches used by museums. I propose that collaborative projects drawing upon the principles of ecomuseology and what I describe as participation by endowment may provide new ways of involving groups of immigrant background. I limit the discussion to questions tied to the intangible cultural heritage of migration to Europe and argue that by recording, documenting, safeguarding and keeping the intangible heritage of diasporas alive, museums contribute in promoting self-esteem among these populations and social cohesion in society.

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“…The last function (Museum as an instrument for social cohesion and welfare) relates to the museum's capacity to become a place of cultural connection and interchange, an instrument of cultural policies with the aim of social integration and cohesion (Sandell, 2002;Watson, 2007). Recent migrations have deeply transformed the appearance of cities and places, while issues of multiculturalism and integration have also become relevant for the revitalization of historical centres and cities of art.…”

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Museums as Societal Engines for Urban Renewal. The Event Strategy of the Museum of Natural History in Florence

Lazzeretti¹,

Capone²

2013

European Planning Studies

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The paper aims to contribute to the debate on urban renewal, departing from the socalled Bilbao effect. Focusing on the resurgence of a societal function of cultural heritage, we discuss the idea of the museum as a societal engine through a case study. Although the literature has been mainly dedicated to assessing the economic impact of large art museums in former industrial regions, the paper focuses on a small scientific museum, the Museum of Natural History in Florence, and on its strategy of social enhancement through the organization of smalland medium-sized cultural events in the historical city centre. Through the application of social network analysis to 17 temporary exhibitions between 2000 and 2012 and the analysis of 790 events divided into three macro-areas (relations with territory, educational networks and scientific networks), the role played by the museum, the density and variety of events will be investigated. The resulting picture is that of a proactive museum located at the centre of a network of-mostly local-institutional actors that have effectively contributed to the revitalization of scientific knowledge and education as well as relations with the citizenship and the territory, therefore representing a valuable example of a societal enhancement of culture.

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Museums and their Communities

Cited by 115 publications

References 2 publications

Museums’ community engagement schemes, austerity and practices of care in two local museum services

Museums’ community engagement schemes, austerity and practices of care in two local museum services

Museums, Diasporas and the Sustainability of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Museums as Societal Engines for Urban Renewal. The Event Strategy of the Museum of Natural History in Florence

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