John Falk and Beverly Sheppard's recent publication, "Thriving in the
Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural
Institutions" (AltaMira, 2006), tries to move us in new directions. I just
began reading it; has anyone else found it helpful or provocative?
Dean
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From: "Micah Zender" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 10:29 AM
Subject: [MUSEUM-L] "it all begins with what we do here creatively."
An interesting article about the NYC Opera this morning on the USA Today
site. The new
director of the Opera seems to get the fact that catering the Opera to the
publics
interests, and not just that of his current patrons will make accessible
something that has
for a long time been regarded as entertainment for the eliete.
I see interesting parallels within the museum world in the problems that
he's addressing.
As museums have often removed themselves from the general public in order to
hold
themselves more in line with acadamia, and high-art, rather than a source of
cultural
entertainment. (generalizing)
I'm not looking to start a flame war - quite the opposite. Anyone have any
ideas on what
sort of strategy they think might work for moving a museum more into this
light? Where
the museum doesn't become the next theme park, or more simply, to make a
museum
feel like a place they 'want' to be in. More like a home than a school?
As our culture shifts back towards being an Oral society, and not a Literate
scociety the
culture of learning, and interaction is going to take a huge leap away from
the 'studious'
museums, and more towards an 'experience.' Something that gives them fuel
for
communication. The days of looking things up in encyclopedias, are to be
replaced by
google searches and Wikipedia. What parallels can be drawn in the museum?
here's the link.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2006-10-05-metropolitan-opera_x.htm
Always poking the fire! :)
Micah
Micah Zender
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