>>> Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]> 2/21/2007 9:50 AM >>>
On 2/21/07, museum chanteuse <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> It will display and use art and artifacts but not collect and care for their
>> own at this time.
>>
>Your "museum" sounds like it is doing its part to collect and preserve
>art, artifacts, specimens in the public trust for perpetuity; they
>just aren't housing them.
I think you missed a point there, Deb; the proposed facility is NOT planning to collect or preserve art, artefacts, or specimens (and I certainly hope they don't start if they aren't planning to house them!).
The ICOM museum definition is;
"A museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their environment. (...)"
So, by this definition, the proposed facility would not "qualify" as a museum.
There were a bunch of these that sprang up across Canada in the Centennial year of 1967; they were called "Exhibition Centres." Since the 80s I believe most of them have either shut down, or were folded into community museums.
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Tim McShane, Assistant--Cultural History
Esplanade Museum
401 First Street SE
Medicine Hat, AB T1A 8W2
Tel: (403) 502-8587
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