Defining The Museum Challenges And Compromises Of The 21st Centuryicofom Studies Series 482 Bruno Brulon Soares by Bruno Brulon Soares 9782491997274, 9782491997267, 2491997266, 2491997274 instant download after payment.

ICOFOM’s commitment to a new museum definition This new issue of ICOFOM Study Series was first conceived in Kyoto, Japan, after the ICOFOM plenary that discussed the museum definition prior to the ICOM Extraordinary Assembly of September 7, 2019. In that moment, we witnessed possibly the greatest dispute over a museum definition in ICOM history, and the increase of some frictions that would be both conceptual and political within this organisation. In an optimistic interpretation of the recent past, the General Conference in Kyoto represented an important landmark for the recognition of ICOM’s cultural diversity and for the democratisation of decision-making processes within this global forum. Since then, with the postponement of the vote on a new museum definition, which was decided by a majority of 70% of ICOM representatives, the debate around a new definition for the 21st century has continued to grow and is far from reaching an end. In the year following the Kyoto Conference, ICOFOM has conducted an international survey (the results of which are published in this issue), it has organised two international meetings with other ICOM committees (in Europe and in Latin America), and it has established a closer relationship with National and International committees by sharing experiences and possible methodologies for the work on a new museum definition. This publication is one among several actions taken by ICOFOM to continue contributing to the debate by gathering different opinions and updated studies on this fundamental theme. Our goal, with the selected articles, was not to generate a consensus, but to promote a “polyphonic” dialogue with the challenge to find possible ways to compromise. The result, as you will see, is a friendly duel between academics, researchers, and museum professionals, writing from their local realities and from the point of view of their own practices and engagements in the museum field. Several of the articles presented here refer to…