Transformative museology
| dc.contributor.author | Weldon, Rebecca | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Faculdade de Ciências Sociais, Educação e Administração | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.description | Cadernos de Sociomuseologia | |
| dc.description.abstract | “…we have to take into account the fact that museology and museums are two completely different things.” Martin R. Shärer[1] In the 20th century, growing populations produced a growing body of heritage. The transmission of this heritage to succeeding generations coalesced into three major modern institutions: universities, library/archives and museums. Traditional systems of social and cultural memory had become overloaded and therefore evolved conceptually. This evolution took place within the primary context of a naturally occurring museology through the process I call museogenesis. The term museogenesis refers to the origin and development of museological thought in a specific cultural context. By museological thought, I refer to ideas and theories surrounding the parameters of “the natural and cultural heritage, the activities concerned with the preservation and communication of this heritage, the institutional frame-work, and society as a whole” (Mensch 1992). This broadly inclusive definition relates museology to another broadly defined concept: cultural context. By cultural context, I refer to the “webs of significance and systems of meaning which is the collective property of a group” (Geertz 1973). [1] ICOFOM Study Series – ISS 34, 2003, ISS 34_03.pdf, p.7 | en |
| dc.description.status | Non peer reviewed | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Weldon , R 2010 , ' Transformative museology ' , Cadernos de Sociomuseologia . | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1646-3714 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Lusofona University | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Cadernos de Sociomuseologia | |
| dc.rights | openAccess | |
| dc.subject | MUSEOLOGIA | |
| dc.subject | MUSEUS | |
| dc.subject | MUSEOLOGY | |
| dc.subject | MUSEUMS | |
| dc.title | Transformative museology | en |