By Gaynor Kavanagh
Museums are public locations the place items, pictures and stories are stored and shared. They exist in endless kind and contradiction. they are often areas of significant pleasure and nice boredom, sharply insightful and hopelessly bland. Museums are something that the political weather and the mind's eye permits them to be. No museums are an analogous. The papers which make up this quantity supply abundant facts of the diversity of perspectives that exist approximately museums. additionally they exhibit that museums and museum execs are relocating ahead with power and conviction. This quantity might be worthwhile to scholars and museum pros and may galvanize them to think about museum provision and professionalism in all their kinds.
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In this paper, Stuart Davies measures the weight of museum ‘tradition’ and asks whether museum values should be rethought and, if so, how. INTRODUCTION This paper attempts to present the case for reassessing the values which underpin museum professionalism and which mould how curators perceive the role of museums and how others perceive museums. It will look briefly at how the introduction of new management methodologies has challenged existing assumptions and put pressure on museums to change.
They change with backdrop and grow with use. And it is precisely their fluidity, rather than their capacity to represent directly, that makes them central to human thought and action. A museum is a kind of cultural warehouse. It is a place for things taken out of their natural context to be stored, reclassified and exhibited. When objects become exhibits, they necessarily take on new meanings: they are transformed. The warehouse, among its other uses, serves as a linking place. The object-symbols twist in meaning between two worlds, the world of their origin and the world of significance created by display.
This enormous growth accounts for the influence of Victorian values. The purpose of museums was expressed in municipal museum legislation which talked of museums being ‘for the instruction and recreation of the people’, and in commentators who spoke of them being ‘necessary for the mental and moral health of the citizens’, and as ‘an advanced school of selfinstruction’. The Mappin Art Gallery in Sheffield was founded on the understanding that the corporation would ensure that it was ‘to be open to the public in perpetuity and without any charge’ (Lewis 1989; Hudson 1975; Brears and Davies 1989).