Organization Of Museums Research Articles

Organization of museums in Denmark and the 1984 museum act

(1985). Organization of museums in Denmark and the 1984 museum act. International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 21-27.

Organization of museums in Denmark and the 1984 museum act

Organization of museums in Denmark and the 1984 museum act

Decentralized museum organization: the counties

Decentralized museum organization: the counties

New directions in museum organization

It is certainly an enomous responsibility to discuss museum organization in Latin America and the Caribbean in one short article. Fernanda de Camargo‐Moro, who has considerable professional experience in her own country, Brazil, and more than passing acquaintance with various programmes in other parts of the continent, stresses that the views she expresses below are highly personal and still evolving, as is the entire process of museology in the region.

Museet som bildningsinstitution. Utredningen "Minne och bildning" och dess remissbehandling

The museum as educational institution. A state report and reactions upon it.In spring 1994 a state report on musems was published entitled Memory and education. The objectives and organisation of museums. The report deals with national and state-supported museums. It has been circulated to 150 state agencies, institutions and organizations asking them for comments and opinions. Many have praised the recommendated changes in the report, recommendations which are in part very radical. Among museum professionals however the attitude is markedly sceptical.

Från maskin till hologram: – reflexioner kring museernas organisation

From Machine to Hologram - Thoughts about the Organisation of Museums The author was one of two secretaries working for the Committee responsible for the state report Memory and Education. In this paper he discusses the connection between the metaphors for organisational structures prevalent among leaders and employees in museums and the demands made on the structures as a result of the nature of the museum mission and its working methods. The material gathered by the State Committee indicates that many museum curators apply the machine metaphor to their institutions. However in many circumstances such a metaphor is unsuited to the activities a museum should unfold responding to the rapid change in the surrounding world.

The future of museums

The future of museums would appear to be a hot topic for museum managers and developers. It was the main title of two international conferences at the end of 2012. One was the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) annual meeting in Ireland (2–4 November 2012) and the other was ICOM’s Committee of Leadership and Management (INTERCOM) in Australia (25–29 November 2012).

Organization and statutes of Belgian museums

(1967). Organization and statutes of Belgian museums. Museum International: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 230-234.

The organization and development of museums in Hungary1

The organization and development of museums in Hungary1

The Organization of Museums, Practical Advice

The Organization of Museums, Practical Advice

Thoughts on the Organization of Museums

Thoughts on the Organization of Museums

The Organization and Functions of the Museums

The Organization and Functions of the Museums

World Organisation of Museums

World Organisation of Museums

Organization and Development of Museums

IT is keeping within the truth to say that in Great Britain and Ireland a new museum is born every three weeks, roughly twenty in a year, or two hundred since Sir Henry Miers's report to the Carnegie United Kingdom Trustees was published in 1928. That is an index to the enthusiasm of groups of people aware that there are hidden things the public ought to see; but, alas, it is no index to the foresight of the enthusiasts, for the history of museums indicates that many of the new foundations, without endowments or any guarantee of permanent backing, will sooner or later drop out of the running and disappear. The death-rate of museums all but keeps up with the birth-rate; but the spectacle of the lingering death of the idea embodied in a collection which has outlived its interest does infinite harm to the museum movement.

Organisation of Museums

THE Madrid Conference on Museography on October 28-November 1, 1934, attended by seventy-five experts representing twenty different countries, was noteworthy for the publicity it gave to the organic life led by museums outside their actual exhibition galleries, quite as much as for the success of the Conference in paving the way for a general treatise on the principles and practice of museums. The main object of this Conference, organised by the International Museums Office and the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, was to collect observations and the results of actual experience from as large a number of museums and countries as possible, rather than the formulation of general rules. The agenda of the Conference included discussions on the general principles of the architecture of a museum, on museum equipment both in exhibition and other public rooms and in the museum services; on lighting, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning; the conversion of ancient monuments and other buildings into museums; general principles regarding the enhancement of works of art; methods of presenting collections; organisation of stores, reserves and study collections; permanent and temporary exhibitions; problems arising from the growth of collections; exhibition material; plans of rooms and the numbering and labelling of exhibits. A number of special questions such as collections of sculpture, decorative and industrial art, folk-art and ethnography, and graphic and numismatic collections were also discussed. The Academy of Fine Arts, Madrid, was specially fitted up for the Conference by the Spanish Government, and the International Museums Office lent a considerable amount of graphic and photographic documents to illustrate the papers.

Current Topics and Events

RECENT criticism of the British Museum Bill fully justifies the comments in our issue for July 5. Sir Hercules Read, as an ex-officer and former trustee of the Museum, in a letter to the Times of July 26, emphasises the point that the objects in the national collection are not duplicates, and that the temporary removal of any specimens other than those of trifling interest would disorganise the exhibition and study series, and would add to the difficulties of the serious investigator. The Trustees, who did not ask for this Bill, would in most cases escape from a difficult or delicate position by exercising their discretionary veto. On the other hand, the provincial museums object to the Bill on two grounds: the categories of permissible loans are not those which they particularly desire, and the conditions imposed are onerous if not impossible. The Museums Association has therefore passed a resolution of protest, and has once more called for a Royal Commission to inquire into the whole question of the national organisation of museums. The resolution, which has been sent to the Prime Minister, is as follows: “This Association regrets that the British Museums Bill No. 2, promoted in the interests of provincial museums, should have been introduced without consulting the body which represents those museums and knows their needs, and expresses a hope that the Prime Minister will be so good as to receive a deputation from the Museums Association, which would explain the urgent necessity for the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the work of all the museums of this country.”