Hi Kevin,
in a world of loud museum marketing which
often leads to disappointments and irritations as well as
museum awards often avoiding a look behind public areas of
museums, this sounds like a great idea. We congratulate your
community to launch such a project.
Getting back to our own services, we are
running a public European museum database which includes
28,118 museums all over Europe. As this service is free, you
are able to search this database for museums closed with
appropriate SQL fulltext search characters. See http://www.museum-aktuell.de/index.php?site=museen&TM=2
An example from Lituania can be found
here: http://www.museum-aktuell.de/index.php?site=museen_liste&action=suchen&land=&BL=&TM=2&suchstring=Vyzuonos+&befehl=Ok&wosuchen=1
There are many reasons for closing a museum, but not all are gloomy (your term). In many cases of closed museums, for example, museum objects of smaller premises, often with untrained personnel, were transferred to larger institutions with trained personnel. Functioning concepts may function only for a limited period, because the context (visitor interests) have changed. In times of deadly low public budgets, many public museums were intended to be closed which could be avoided by museum organizations and other groups like the press fighting for their maintenance. Many smaller private museums, on the other hand, mirroring just the unconventional collecting ideas of their owners were closed in the past because public interest in a multitude of similar objects could not be raised.
In contrary to many other museum lists
and databases, we document changes of names of museums as
well as closing downs with notes on the reasons, and the
whereabouts of the museum objects. What is missing, of
course, are notes on the whereabouts of the personnel...
Notes on some closed museums can be
found additionally in back issues of MUSEUM AKTUELL and
EXPOTIME!. For May 2018, we are preparing a bi-monthly issue
of EXPOTIME! on museums failed. Three analytical
contributions for this spectacular issue are already
prepared in the moment. Two additional articles are still
possible - as EXPOTIME! covers museums worldwide,
members of the list may feel themselves invited to
contribute. Contacts: [log in to unmask]
Best
Adelheid Straten
Christian Mueller-Straten
[log in to unmask]">E-mail correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law.Hi All,
Sorry for such a gloomy topic right before the holidays, but working on a community project about museums’ successes and failures.
I am wondering if there is a tracking of museums that have closed, and why over the past five years.
Any point towards articles/literature would be helpful
Kevin
Kevin P. Schlesier
Director, Exhibits
NASCAR Hall of Fame
A Division of the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority (CRVA)
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