The development of museum studies in universities: from technical training to critical museology

Lorente, J. Pedro

doi:10.1080/09647775.2012.701995

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“…Museum studies is evolving from a technical practice to a full‐fledged discipline with academic training programs, an expanding research base, and a growing body of theory (Genoways ; Lorente ; Welsh ). As in other disciplines, researchers and practitioners share and build on knowledge in the field through scholarly literature (East ).…”

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The Museum Studies Literature: Revisiting Traditional Methods of Discovery and Access, Exploring Alternatives, and Leveraging Open Access to Advance the Field

Teasdale¹,

Fruin²

2017

Curator The Museum Journal

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A decade ago, East (2008) examined the coverage of major museum studies journals by two major databases and one academic search engine, concluding that bibliographic control of the museum studies literature was inadequate and posed a barrier to further development of the field. In this article, we revisit the issues raised by East. We reevaluate the availability of core journals in museum studies through traditional venues and identify alternative access and discovery points, including academic citation search engines, journal content alerts, social media, and field-specific websites. We then consider the open access movement and present five recommendations for leveraging open access to enhance discovery and access for the museum studies literature: maximize authors' rights to their own content; publish scholarship in open access or hybrid journals; develop an open access fund for museum studies researchers and scholars; deposit work in open access repositories; and create new open access resources.

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The Museum Studies Literature: Revisiting Traditional Methods of Discovery and Access, Exploring Alternatives, and Leveraging Open Access to Advance the Field

Teasdale¹,

Fruin²

2017

Curator The Museum Journal

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“…It also has set the policy to perform studying and researching to enhance the responsibility and obligation of the museum, which should actively encourage researchers to publish their performances through the exhibition, publishing, electronic media , lectures and other activities (Brandon and Wilson 2005). Whether museum studies can be recognized in the world as a subject area, its professional literature is an issue that measures the significant growth in the museum world and should be obtained more attention (Lorente 2012). The number of published literature is the important measure of the development of one discipline.…”

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The Bibliometric Analysis Of Literature On Museum Studies

Kuo

Yang²

2015

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Commission VI, WG VI/4 KEY WORDS: Museum studies, Museology, Bibliometrics, Bradford's Law ABSTRACT:Museum studies, is the study of museums, museum curation, and how and why museums developed into their institutional role in education and culture through scientific, social, political and other related forces. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the application trends of the international literature related to museum studies on the SCIE, SSCI, and AHCI databases between 1995 and 2014 using a bibliometric technique and citation analysis. The results of this study reveal that influences of the literature related to museum studies on other subject areas continue to expand. Considering the publication of major countries, subject areas, journal and institutions, the results also discussed that the future trend through analysing most cited articles. Moreover, 12 core journal lists are identified by Bradford's law.

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“…UK, US, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands), museum work over the last couple of decades or so has been moving closer to a mainstreamed model of a postgraduate degree-based profession (Carter, Castle, & Soren, 2011;Davies, 2007;Lorente, 2012;McClellan, 2007;Welsh, 2013), with museum studies courses designed specifically as a pre-service professional course to feed graduates into the museum labor market (although this is not tightly regulated and set as a requirement for entry into museum work, as is the case in nursing for example). Not unlike any other type of university-based professional course (e.g.…”

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“…From within museums themselves, in part due to the external discourses on the museum and in part due to a new post-1968 generation of museum workers (Lorente, 2012, pp. 241-242) keen to reshape the value base of museum work, there has been a great deal of reflexivity-often introspective thinking aloud in written format-about the operational and ethical idiom that underpins museum work, and how the museum can overcome and transcend its inherent limits that follow from its collections that are often seen as, and can be reduced to, a rarefied repository of curiosities, as a simple object of curiosity-including rigorous and scholarly curiosity (Dubuc, 2011;Lorente, 2012;Mason, 2006). All of these dynamics and factors have combined to amount to a salient discursive investment in the museum, turning it into an object of enquiry as well as scrutiny, driven by critical, epistemic, practical, and ethical imperatives.…”

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Encountering the Creative Museum: Museographic creativeness and thebricolageof time materials

Tlili

2015

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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The aim of this article is to trace some lines of thinking towards a conceptualization of the uniqueness of the creative work of museums, the mode of creativeness that belongs exclusively to museums, or at least that museums are capable of by virtue of the types of materials and forms as well as activities unique to what will be referred to as museography. This is linked to the question of what it is that constitutes the uniqueness of museum work as a professional field. The article characterizes the uniqueness of museum professional knowledge primarily in terms of a mode of creativeness, or bricolage in Levi-Strauss's sense, mediated through the museographic form, and applied to the chance assemblies of materials to generate museumspecific modes of engaging questions-across science, culture, and society-particularly through creating unique temporal arrangements, or durations, that provoke thought, learning, and engagement on museographic terms. Museography's originality, it is argued, consists in a bricolage that works through the museum's unique material and form to create learning resources and encounters, museographic assemblages that depart from a conception of linear time as the space of evolutionary narrative to facilitate the experience of Bergsonian durations.

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The development of museum studies in universities: from technical training to critical museology

Cited by 30 publications

References 11 publications

The Museum Studies Literature: Revisiting Traditional Methods of Discovery and Access, Exploring Alternatives, and Leveraging Open Access to Advance the Field

The Museum Studies Literature: Revisiting Traditional Methods of Discovery and Access, Exploring Alternatives, and Leveraging Open Access to Advance the Field

The Bibliometric Analysis Of Literature On Museum Studies

Encountering the Creative Museum: Museographic creativeness and thebricolageof time materials

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