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Shelley Ruth Butler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The International Handbooks of Museum Studies - Reflexive Museology: Lost and Found
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Shelley Ruth ButlerAbstract:This chapter explores the contemporary status of critical reflexive Museology in theory and practice. I begin by discussing the canonization of Into the Heart of Africa, a landmark case of flawed reflexive Museology, and then trace what has happened to reflexive Museology since the mid-1990s. I argue that a specific notion of postmodern reflexive Museology has receded from contemporary museological debates. However, two decades of practical experimentation with reflexivity, alongside a global proliferation of museums and an increasingly heterogeneous public sphere, has meant that many tactics associated with reflexivity – such as self-critique and multivocality – are now quite mainstream, and are incorporated into the broader paradigm shift of new Museology. I argue that, while reflexivity's association with postmodernism is complicated, the end result is exhibitions that are less monolithic and more visitor-centered. At this juncture, it is necessary to evaluate on a case-by-case basis, not only curators’ and educators’ effectiveness at translating reflexivity into practice, but also the impact and afterlife of their interventions. Keywords: critical Museology; irony; postmodernity; power; reflexivity
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reflexive Museology lost and found
The International Handbooks of Museum Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Shelley Ruth ButlerAbstract:This chapter explores the contemporary status of critical reflexive Museology in theory and practice. I begin by discussing the canonization of Into the Heart of Africa, a landmark case of flawed reflexive Museology, and then trace what has happened to reflexive Museology since the mid-1990s. I argue that a specific notion of postmodern reflexive Museology has receded from contemporary museological debates. However, two decades of practical experimentation with reflexivity, alongside a global proliferation of museums and an increasingly heterogeneous public sphere, has meant that many tactics associated with reflexivity – such as self-critique and multivocality – are now quite mainstream, and are incorporated into the broader paradigm shift of new Museology. I argue that, while reflexivity's association with postmodernism is complicated, the end result is exhibitions that are less monolithic and more visitor-centered. At this juncture, it is necessary to evaluate on a case-by-case basis, not only curators’ and educators’ effectiveness at translating reflexivity into practice, but also the impact and afterlife of their interventions. Keywords: critical Museology; irony; postmodernity; power; reflexivity
Tatiana Oliveira - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Museology: in network, in movement, in collective and the experience of the Museu Vivo do São Bento
Cadernos de Sociomuseologia, 2020Co-Authors: Tatiana OliveiraAbstract:This article proposes to address the importance of social Museology for the development of outstanding institutions focusing on heritage, memory and history. For this, the article approaches the experience of the Living Museum of São Bento, an institution exponent in the region of Baixada Fluminense, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, which deals with such issues. The official creation of the Museum took place in 2008, through the demands of education professionals in the municipality of Duque de Caxias and its social agents, in dialogue with social Museology, attributes to the Museum the role of an agent with a social function from of practices that respect cultural diversity and, in fact, integrate the local community. In this way, it becomes a social transforming agent with political, cultural and pedagogical power, which, when transforming the environment, transforms everyone. With a view to building the dimensions of the social function of museums, and taking as reference the Living Museum of São Bento itself, the article also presents the paths taken to consolidate the Museology renewal movements, from the perspective of social Museology and the importance of collectives for the strengthening and democratization of museums. Keywords: Social Museology; Museu Vivo do São Bento; Social Function; Museums.
Oliveira Tatiana - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Museologia Social: em rede, em movimento, em coletivo e a experiência do Museu Vivo do São Bento
'Department of Museology - Lusophone University', 2020Co-Authors: Oliveira TatianaAbstract:This article proposes to address the importance of social Museology for the development of outstanding institutions focusing on heritage, memory and history. For this, the article approaches the experience of the Living Museum of São Bento, an institution exponent in the region of Baixada Fluminense, in the State of Rio de Janeiro, which deals with such issues. The official creation of the Museum took place in 2008, through the demands of education professionals in the municipality of Duque de Caxias and its social agents, in dialogue with social Museology, attributes to the Museum the role of an agent with a social function from of practices that respect cultural diversity and, in fact, integrate the local community. In this way, it becomes a social transforming agent with political, cultural and pedagogical power, which, when transforming the environment, transforms everyone. With a view to building the dimensions of the social function of museums, and taking as reference the Living Museum of São Bento itself, the article also presents the paths taken to consolidate the Museology renewal movements, from the perspective of social Museology and the importance of collectives for the strengthening and democratization of museums. Keywords: Social Museology; Museu Vivo do São Bento; Social Function; Museums.Este artigo propõe abordar a importância da museologia social para o desenvolvimento de instituições expoentes que tenham como foco o patrimônio, a memória e a história. Para tanto, o artigo aborda a experiência do Museu Vivo do São Bento, uma instituição expoente na região da Baixada Fluminense, no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, que versa sobre tais questões. A oficialização da criação do Museu ocorreu em 2008, através da reivindicação dos profissionais da área da educação do município de Duque de Caxias e, seus agentes sociais, ao dialogarem com a museologia social, atribui ao Museu o papel de agente com função social a partir de práticas que respeitem a diversidade cultural e integram, de fato, a comunidade local. Dessa forma, torna-se um agente transformador social com potência política, cultural e pedagógica, que ao transformar o meio transforma a todos. Tendo-se em vista a construção das dimensões da função social dos museus, e, tomando como referencial o próprio Museu Vivo do São Bento, o artigo também apresenta os caminhos percorridos para a consolidação dos movimentos de renovação da museologia, sob a ótica da museologia social e a importância dos coletivos para o fortalecimento e democratização dos museus. Palavras-Chaves: Museologia Social; Museu Vivo do São Bento; Função Social; Museu
Paula Assunção Dos Santos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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CHAPTER 2 - THE RELATIONS BETWEEN Museology AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: FROM THE 90’S AND TOWARDS A NEW CENTURY
Cadernos de Sociomuseologia, 2008Co-Authors: Paula Assunção Dos SantosAbstract:In the early 90’s, Mario Moutinho launched the concept of social Museology, idea which symbolizes much of the updates taken place in the field of Museology during the past years. Created as a framework for the newly implemented Museology courses at the Universidade Lusofona in Lisbon, the concept of social Museology translates, according to Moutinho (1993), considerable part of the efforts in adapting Museology to contemporary society conditionalisms 56 . It refers to the opening of museological structures to the milieu and their organic relation with the social context that brings them to life. The notion of social Museology, as well as the appreciation of the context in which it was created, serve as departure to analyse two aspects that characterize the state of affairs between Museology and community development today -relationship marked by a slow convergence that has become more solid since the decade of 90, period when proposals concerning contributions to development clearly began to extrapolate the circle of the new Museology and integrate the broader field of Museology. The first aspect refers to the relations of museums (and the museological field as a whole) with contemporary society and the second to an approximation between the so-called new and traditional Museology.
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chapter 2 the relations between Museology and community development from the 90 s and towards a new century
Cadernos de Sociomuseologia, 2008Co-Authors: Paula Assunção Dos SantosAbstract:In the early 90’s, Mario Moutinho launched the concept of social Museology, idea which symbolizes much of the updates taken place in the field of Museology during the past years. Created as a framework for the newly implemented Museology courses at the Universidade Lusofona in Lisbon, the concept of social Museology translates, according to Moutinho (1993), considerable part of the efforts in adapting Museology to contemporary society conditionalisms 56 . It refers to the opening of museological structures to the milieu and their organic relation with the social context that brings them to life. The notion of social Museology, as well as the appreciation of the context in which it was created, serve as departure to analyse two aspects that characterize the state of affairs between Museology and community development today -relationship marked by a slow convergence that has become more solid since the decade of 90, period when proposals concerning contributions to development clearly began to extrapolate the circle of the new Museology and integrate the broader field of Museology. The first aspect refers to the relations of museums (and the museological field as a whole) with contemporary society and the second to an approximation between the so-called new and traditional Museology.
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CHAPTER 3 - Museology AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE XXI CENTURY
Cadernos de Sociomuseologia, 2008Co-Authors: Paula Assunção Dos SantosAbstract:Since the late 60’s, many authors have worked to bring clarifications on the concepts of development applied to the museological field. Until the 90’s, professionals related to the new Museology school of thought and MINOM’s philosophy virtually monopolized the efforts to conceptualize and explain community development. With the opening in the field to development issues, today it is possible to find references to community development theory and practice in other publications besides those originating from authors associated to the new Museology. The same way as it happens with the broader field of development, it is not easy to define community development, once a number of variables come to shape ideas that only take concrete form in practice. That is to say, development is a truly ideological concept, being intimately related to the aspirations of each particular community. In this way, in order to understand the meaning of community development within the discourse of Museology, one must take into account the assessment of theoretical variables (categorized here as key concepts, approaches and principles) under specific contexts and demands (described as development objectives). Before proceeding with their analysis, it seems necessary to present some connotations that accompany to the term “development”, not only within the museological field, but the field of development as a whole.
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CHAPTER 1 - THE RELATIONS BETWEEN Museology AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: SOCIETY CHANGES, Museology CHANGES
Cadernos de Sociomuseologia, 2008Co-Authors: Paula Assunção Dos SantosAbstract:Much has been written about the critical atmosphere experienced in the 60’s, when struggles for social justice, civil rights, individual freedom, world peace and democracy set a tune of change in society. Episodes such as the students mobilizations in Europe (which have in the May of 68 its celebrated climax), the hippie movement in USA, the voices against dictatorships in Latin America and countries from the Iberian Peninsula; and names such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, among others, marked a decade of non-conformism and became to cast new social goals worldwide. It is not by chance that the 60s also brought radical changes to the field of Museology as a whole. From the reassessment of purpose and relevance of Museology for society to the re-evaluation of effectiveness of the classic museum functions, transformations were profuse in “the traditionally stable and conservative museum world.
Jesús Pedro Lorente Lorente - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The development of museum studies in universities: from technical training to critical Museology
Museum Management and Curatorship, 2012Co-Authors: Jesús Pedro Lorente LorenteAbstract:Abstract Since the pioneering examples of the early twentieth century, museum studies has largely developed through practical-oriented courses aimed at training specialists intending to follow professional careers within museums. This has slowly changed and Museology has become part of graduate and postgraduate curriculum, both at the masters and doctoral levels. Some universities have chairs in Museology, or even departments of museum studies, while the number of dedicated books and journals in the field, published by university presses, has expanded enormously over the past decade. Universities have also become major sponsors of conferences, seminars, and related scientific meetings on Museology, signaling a major shift. It is, therefore, not surprising that university-based academics have become the leading theorists of critical Museology: an international movement that advocates a postmodern rupture with linear narratives of authority formerly prevailing in museums. This new direction in museum theory...
