Museums beyond the crises
Subtitle: CIMAM 2012 annual conference publication
By: lead editors Zdenka Badovinac, Bartomeu Marí
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781443884204; 9781443860543
Subjects: Museums; Congresses; Musées; Congrès; Aspect économique; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Museum Administration & Museology; REFERENCE; General; TRAVEL; Museums, Tours, Points of Interest; Economic aspects; Museum finance; Philosophy; Planning
Description: There are a number of different crises, in various guises, in today's world. The most prominent of these is the global economic crisis, but this is not felt as keenly across the globe: there are also countries of economic prosperity. There is also, however, the museum crisis: the predominant model of the museum is collapsing. Again, this crisis is not constant everywhere - there are spaces that didn't have museums until recently and are now suddenly experiencing a museum boom, or else are still without museums but have initiatives that are taking care of heritage beyond the traditional model o.