Museum Provision And Professionalism (leicester Readers In Museum Studies)

Museum Provision and Professionalism Leicester Readers in Museum Studies Series editor: Professor Susan M.Pearce Care of Collections Simon Knell Collections Management Anne Fahy The Educational Role of the Museum Eilean Hooper-Greenhill Interpreting Objects and Collections Susan M.Pearce Museum Management Kevin Moore Museum Provision and Professionalism Gaynor Kavanagh Museum Provision and Professionalism Edited by Gaynor Kavanagh London and New York First published 1994 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Editorial matter © 1994 Gaynor Kavanagh Individual contributions © 1994 individual contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-97446-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-415-11280-X (hbk) ISBN 0-415-11281-8 (pbk) Contents List of figures ix List of tables x Series preface xi Acknowledgements xii Introduction Gaynor Kavanagh 1 Part 1 The museum: some definitions 13 1 Some definitions of ‘museum’ Timothy Ambrose and Crispin Paine 2 The Museums Charter Museums Association Part 2 Thinking about museums 14 16 18 3 The museum as a staging ground for symbolic action Sheldon Annis 19 4 How sweet it is: cultural politics in Barbados Jeanne Canizzo 24 5 A sense of purpose: rethinking museum values and strategies Stuart Davies 31 6 The principles of museum administration G.Brown Goode 39 7 Museums for the year 2000: a case for continuous revolution J.Patrick Greene 46 8 Museum futures Peter Jenkinson 50 9 Piero della Francesca and the trainspotters Mark O’Neill 53 Making up is hard to do Susan M.Pearce 60 10 vi 11 Museum as dialogue Neil Postman 65 12 The future of history museums Michael Wallace 69 13 The proper business of the museum: ideas or things? Stephen Weil 79 14 Visiting and evaluating museums Gaynor Kavanagh 87 Part 3 Museums UK 15 Th