Star Architecture Landing in UNESCO Sites: Local Frictions and Regulations

Cominelli, Francesca; Jacquot, Sébastien

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-23925-1_15

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“…On the other hand, two decades after the Circular Letter, experience adverts to the risk of handing over the design of the museum space to the architect alone. This risk is more significant when the space is constructed from scratch by a so-called 'starchitect', who creates designs with impressive visual impact prevailing over its functionality (Cominelli and Jacquot 2020;Klimek 2014). The manifest tendency to render the container predominate over the content-that is, the exhibition space and the exhibitors over the objects-may turn out to be a prestigious building in detriment to the effectiveness of the museological plan.…”

Section: Circular Letter Description and Analysismentioning

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Ecclesiastical Museums and the Pontifical Letter on Its Pastoral Functions

Roque

2023

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The Catholic Church arrogates a long tradition of protecting and using heritage to complement its evangelisation ministry from the medieval ecclesiastical treasures included in museology proto-history. While these treasures have adopted museographic features, other typologies of ecclesiastical museums have appeared, demanding regulations that could orient their activities. After the Second Vatican Council, the Church became increasingly focused on guaranteeing a worthy destination for the objects left over from worship. In 2001, the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church published the Circular Letter The pastoral function of ecclesiastical museums, establishing that the ecclesiastical museum is an adequate solution for these objects, keeping them close to the cultural group of origin and providing continuity to its original catechetical function. Two decades later, a critical analysis of the Letter is proposed in the theoretical frame of museum studies. Considering the recovery object’s original meaning in the museum discourse, the connection to territory, and the interaction with the plural and heterogeneous audience, the conformity of the Letter with the museum theory is underlined. With a focus on its general accuracy, the aim of this study is to evaluate how the Letter remains actualised and adapted to contemporaneity in addition to the challenges and transformations now faced by museums.

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Section: Circular Letter Description and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%