A New County Museum: The Museums and Contract Archaeology

Richard Grönwall

doi:10.37718/csa.2017.06

Abstract

A New County Museum: The Museums and Contract Archaeology

Highlights

Heritage management measures have further increased the distance be tween the county administrative boards and the museums, for example, concerning the former traditional museum assignment of managing an cient monuments and setting up signs at historic sites, which in certain counties today is entrusted to private entrepreneurs to undertake, paid with public money in return for state funding
The deregulation of Swedish contract archaeology at the end of the 1990s fundamentally changed the conditions for the work of the regional mu seums
The development of contract archaeology to wards a market that is admitted regulated by the state but is still sub ject to competition has simultaneously proven to be difficult to com bine with the role of public representatives in heritage management

Summary

Introduction

Heritage management measures have further increased the distance be tween the county administrative boards and the museums, for example, concerning the former traditional museum assignment of managing an cient monuments and setting up signs at historic sites, which in certain counties today is entrusted to private entrepreneurs to undertake, paid with public money in return for state funding. Contract archaeology has continued to be important for many museums, not just for the development of knowledge and for the possibility of financing broader competence than would other wise have been possible. The great est changes have probably taken place in Stockholm County, a region with a generally high volume of contracts per year and a large num ber of actors in the sector.

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