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A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment. International Council of Museums
A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment. means
A museum is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment.
ends
social inclusion
• Inclusive museums
• Museums as agents of social regeneration • Museums as vehicles of broad social change • The activist museum
David Kolb Bernice McCarthy Rita Mukherjee Hoffstadt
personal histories
medical knowledge
industry and politics
social impact
example: AIDS
“Incubation Period”
Archives: 50 (20, 30) years Monuments: 50 years Louvre – Musée de Luxembourg Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) - Museum van
Levende Nederlandsche Meesters (Haarlem, 1828-1885)
utilitarian value
trans-historic cultural value
region of fixed assumptions
region of indeterminacy
region of fixed assumptions
transient durable rubbish
Michael Thompson, Rubbish theory (1979)
utilitarian value
trans-historic cultural value
transient durable rubbish
(after Thompson 1979)
museologische context
utilitarian value
trans-historic cultural value
region of fixed assumptions
region of fixed assumptions
transient durable
Michael Thompson, Rubbish theory (1979)
forced musealisation
Documenting the present
• Natural history museums • Art museums • Ethnographical museums • Cultural history museums • Science and technology museums
Documenting the present
• Natural history museums • Art museums • Ethnographical museums • Cultural history museums • Science and technology museums
City museums
Collecting strategies
Retrospective collecting - Selecting from incomplete cohesive ensembles (archives, archaeological heritage) - Assembling decontextualised (and recontextualised) individual objects Contemporary collecting - Selecting from antropological perspective of a not-involved outsider - Self-documentation/participatory collecting
Projecten 2
• Brieven aan de toekomst (15 mei 1998) • FotoMonument 2000 (7-13 december 2000) • Sound scape 9-9-99 • De tien van 2012
Samdok
Network, created in 1977 Primary mission: supporting cultural history museums in collecting contemporary objects Network to organise collecting and to distribute responsibilities
Homes pool
Public administration Pool
Service Pool
Communication Pool
Trade Pool
Construction Pool
Textiles Pool
Food Pool
Timber and Paper Pool
Metal Pool
Agricultural and Forestry Pool
Homes Pool
Public administration Pool
Service Pool
Communication Pool
Trade Pool
Construction Pool
Textiles Pool
Food Pool
Timber and Paper Pool
Metal Pool
Agricultural and Forestry Pool
Group for Cultural Encounters 1993
Domestic Life
Local and Regional Spheres
Society and Politics
Leisure
Services
Nature and Natural resources
Manufacture
Saami Life
Group for Cultural Encounters
1997
Selection criteria
• Frequency criterion • Step-ladder criterion • Representativity criterion • Appeal criterion • Domain criterion • Form criterion
Documenting the present
• Documenting what disappears • Documenting continuity/tradition • Documenting change/the new
Contemporary, but …..
• presented to the museum at the moment that the gay community itself was losing interest
Relevant, but …..
• the musealisation process prohibits the active use as
- personal remembrance of partners/relatives - educational/activist tool outside the museum space