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MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, POLITICS AND MANAGEMENT

Explore the intersection of museums, galleries, and functions in the context of object meanings, safeguarding, and modernization. Delve into the dynamics of representation, attachment, and decision-making in the field.

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MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, POLITICS AND MANAGEMENT

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  1. MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, POLITICS AND MANAGEMENT Clive Gray De Montfort University

  2. MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND FUNCTIONS • Objects and pictures: meanings and displays • Collection, safeguarding, displaying, trust • Inspiration, creativity, education, economic regeneration, modernisation, identity construction, community, management

  3. FUNCTIONALITY • Untenable: overlap/interaction • Uncertainty: change over time • What will they do? • Exogenous/endogenous choices • Professionalism and politics

  4. REPRESENTATION AND DISPLAY • Social constructivist/interpretive approaches • Reliance on qualitative data • Top-down imposition of value • Bottom-up reception/perception/interpretation of value • Instrumentalism

  5. INSTRUMENTALISM AND ATTACHMENT • External imposition – social inclusion • Internal attachment – education • Outputs and outcomes • Evidence-based policy • The problem of assessment and hostages to fortune

  6. DECISIONS, DECISIONS • Seahenge and the Elgin Marbles • Fragmented processes • Internal ‘management’ decisions • External ‘political’ interference • Political symbolism/’practical’ choices • ‘What and Why and When/and How and Where and Who’

  7. CUI BONO • Audiences/visitors/customers? • Citizens/consumers/learners? • The ‘general public’/curators/’politicians’? • Locality/nation/the world?

  8. CONCLUSIONS • ‘The exhaustion of museums, of libraries:/It is nothing to do with dust, or being old, or dead. (Anthony Thwaite, Accumulations) • Museums are the sites where a range of political choices are made: an effective political analysis of these is still needed

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