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What makes a museum, a museum in the 21st century? This is a transformative moment in the history of museums. Traditionally, the museums have been defined by the functions of collecting, preserving, documenting, researching, exhibiting and in other ways, communicating and interpreting evidence of human culture and history for the benefit of everyone. But what is the future of museums in a fast-changing world of economic uncertainty, social disruption, health challenges and climate change? Can museums reflect the accountability and transparency under which they are expected to acquire and use their material, financial, social, and intellectual resources?
What Is a Museum? Perspectives from National and International Museum Leaders shares perspectives from dedicated professionals investigating how museums can meet their ethical, political, social, cultural, and environmental responsibilities in the years to come. In a series of essays, well-known leaders in the museum sector and related fields contribute to our understanding of the current and future challenges facing museums around the world. ICOM-US Co-Chair and Secretary of the Smithsonian, Lonnie G. Bunch III, summarizes the issues and provides guidance for the future of museums.
Questions explored include:
What lessons have we learned from the needs of the communities we claim to serve and how can we better adapt to shift our priorities in a faster and more efficient way? How can museums not only chronicle the past, but depict the present and become touchstones for the future of their communities?In a world aimed towards political correctness, how do we address collections resulting from power and colonization?This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in why museums matter today, what their future holds, and how to change them
Contents
Forward
Preface
By: Kate Quinn
Epigraph
Part One: What is a Museum?
Chapter 1: Overview
By Alejandra Peña Gutierrez
Chapter 2: Public Trust at American Museums Today: Observations and Priorities
By Thomas Loughman
Chapter 3: How Do We Center People in Museums?
By Elaine Heumann Gurian
Chapter 4: Museums Must Be More: : ICOM's Definition of "Museum" Needs to Take into Account How the Field Has Changed and Where It Is Heading
By W. Richard West
Part Two: Safe Places or Social Spaces?
Chapter 5: Safe Places or Social Spaces?
By Diana Pardue
Chapter 6: On Museums and Place: Alejandra Peña Gutierrez with Andrés Roldán
Chapter 7: Yes, And: Museums as Safe Places AND Social Spaces
By Linda Norris
Chapter 8 :Crossing Museum Boundaries: From Gallery Space to Protest Place
By Ihor Poshyvailo
Part Three: The Function of Collecting
Chapter 9: The Functions of Collecting: An Inquiry
By William Eiland
Chapter 10: KonMari in the Museum: Collecting Front, Center and Back
By Danielle Kuijten
Chapter 11: On Museums and Collecting: Kate Quinn with Anne Pasternak
Chapter 12: Beyond Colonial Collecting
By Tukufu Zuberi
Part Four: The Whiteness of Museums
Chapter 13: The Whiteness of Museums
By Lyndel King
Chapter 14: What Makes a Museum, A Museum: From the African Experience
By George Okello Abungu
Chapter 15:The Work is Never Done: Reckoning and Reparation in Museums
By Christopher Bedford
Chapter 16: "Dysmantaling" a Museum
By Christina Woods
Part Five: Museums as Influencers
Chapter 17 :Museums as Influencers
By Diana Pardue
Chapter 18: To Be of Influence Starts with Being Open to Influence
By Kelly McKinley
Chapter 19: Can a New Definition Convert Museums into Influencers?
By Lauran Bonilla-Merchav and Bruno Burlon Soares
Chapter 20: Redefine the Museum: Making a Case for Embracing Our Inner Agent of Change
By Lisa Sasaki
Part Six: Crisis: Environmentalism, Sustainability and Museums
Chapter 21: Beyond Crisis: Museums and Sustainability
By William Eiland
Chapter 22: Imagining Another World at the National Public Housing Museum
By Lisa Yun Lee
Chapter 23: Weaving New Narratives: Museums and Sustainable Futures
By Morien Rees
Chapter 24: The Museum's Role in the Global Effort to Create a World Where Everyone and Everything Can Thrive
By Sarah Sutton
Part Seven: What Now/Now What?
Chapter 25: Seizing the Moment: The Evolution of the 21st- Century Museum
By Lonnie G. Bunch, III
Index
About the Contributors
About ICOM-US
About the Editors
