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E-book Key Concepts of Museology
What is a museum? How do we defi ne a collection? What is an institution? What does the term ‘heritage’ encompass? Museum professionals have inevitably developed answers to questions such as these, which are fundamental to their work, compiled according to their knowledge and experience. Do we need to reconsider these? We believe so. Museum work shifts back and forth between practice and theory, with theory regularly being sacrifi ced to the thousand and one daily tasks. The fact remains, however, that thought is a stimulating exercise which is also fundamental for personal development and for the development of the museum world. The purpose of ICOM, on an international level, and of national and regional museum associations more locally, is to develop standards and improve the quality of the thinking that guides the museum world and the services that it provides to society, through meetings between professionals. More than thirty international committees work on this collective think tank, each in its specifi c sector, producing remarkable publications. But how can this wealth of thought on conservation, new
technologies, education, historical houses, management, professions, and more, all fi t together? More generally, how is what one might call the museum fi eld organised? These are the questions addressed by the ICOM
International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) since its foundation in 1977, in particular through its publications (ICOFOMStudy Series) which set out to inventory and synthesise the diversity of opinions in museology.
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