Yes, someone should really care about names and definitions: What is a
museum, what is a collection, why do we need a collection ....
But, others care about working the cultural field, keeping up humanity,
informing about human beings and their ambition to understand each other and
the world.
Be it a theatre, be it an exhibition, a science centre, a museum, a gallery,
an open space, a combination of theatre and museum, a conglomerate of it all
... some of us do care that it works and hits the hearts and brains of other
people.
If you do not move the soul of other people you might have a good defined
museum - but you are ashes in the world of burning culture.
Greetings from culture-full Vienna,
Peter, the enthusiastic Rebernik
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Von: Olivia S. Anastasiadis <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.museum-l
An: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Datum: Mittwoch, 26. Mai 1999 22:13
Betreff: Re: museums without collections
>On Wed, 26 May 1999 09:09:28 -0500 Mike Willis <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>>Hi Erica,
>>
>>Your question about collection-less museums is very interesting....
>>
>>What I would like to hear from other list members is, what are
>advantages of not possessing a collection? What is the line between "art
>centers" and "galleries"? And how, if at all, does the lack of a
>collection affect the educational goals of an institution?
>>>
>>Mike Willis
>>Curator of Education
>>ExhibitsUSA
>>
>
>Short answer, if your goal is to educate, and you are fulfilling your
>mission, then you truly don't need a collection; does that make you a
>museum? Nope; but it makes you another mechanism used by museums (by
>taking on your traveling exhibits) to support our mission, mainly, to
>disseminate, interpret, educate and present to the public.
>
>Advantages to not having a collection? A tricky one; if you are a
>center/gallery that takes on museum owned collections, you'll have to
>follow to the letter all the codes and restrictions imposed upon you by
>that museum, proper HVAC systems to monitor the temperature and relative
>humidity of the gallery; security cameras or guards (or a combination);
>restricted access to storage and appropriate temp and RH in that area.
>And insurance coverage!! However, if you and the lender can agree on
>different levels of caring for the items borrowed, then all of that might
>be more relaxed, therefore less expensive than handling a collection.
>
>I'll let someone else pipe in now; aaarghh I saw the other stuff about
>"collections-less" museums being an evil thing, and the "overall dismay"
>out there over this trend. Come on!! I do believe there is more
>competition out there for federal dollars, and many of these centers are
>funded by state or federal grants that go after EDUCATION grants.
>Perhaps museums aren't tapping enough into these grants to enable us to
>put on particular programs which cities are capitalizing on. For
>whatever reasons, there is an increased interest in people from all walks
>of life in acquiring "culture" and we are seeing the birth of "new types
>of centers" where this can be acquired. Don't you know people still
>think of museums as "stuffy places?" A "center" is less intimidating
>than going to the "Metropolitan" or the "Athenaeum." Think about it.
>
>O
>Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
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