Museums and Communities Curators, Collections and Collaboration
“Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaboration” by Viv Golding is a critical examination of contemporary scholarship on museums and their relationships with the communities they aim to serve. Published by A&C Black on May 9, 2013, this 290-page volume is presented in English and features a collection of insights from respected authors across the US, Australia, and Europe. The book addresses significant gaps in existing literature by exploring new curatorial strategies and the complexities of collaboration between museums and their communities.
Readers will find a thorough analysis of key issues surrounding scholarship, community engagement, and participation within the museum context. The text challenges conventional notions of inclusion and political correctness, urging a deeper understanding of the diverse identities within communities. Through sixteen chapters, contributors pose critical questions about the authenticity of engagement and the dynamics of artist collaborations, emphasizing the need for museums to navigate the fluid nature of community identities. This volume serves as a resource for students of museum and cultural studies, practitioners, and anyone interested in the evolving role of museums in society.
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This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent approaches to collaboration between museums and their communities.
The book unpacks taken-for-granted notions such as scholarship, community, participation and collaboration, which can gloss over the complexity of identities and lead to tokenistic claims of inclusion by museums. Over sixteen chapters, well-respected authors from the US, Australia and Europe offer a timely critique to address what happens when museums put community-minded principles into practice, challenging readers to move beyond shallow notions of political correctness that ignore vital difference in this contested field.
Contributors address a wide range of key issues, asking pertinent questions such as how museums negotiate the complexities of integrating collaboration when the target community is a living, fluid, changeable mass of people with their own agendas and agency. When is engagement real as opposed to symbolic, who benefits from and who drives initiatives? What particular challenges and benefits do artist collaborations bring? Recognising the multiple perspectives of community participants is one thing, but how can museums incorporate this successfully into exhibition practice?
Students of museum and cultural studies, practitioners and everyone who cares about museums around the world will find this volume essential reading.
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