Hi Marieke,
you call it a "great concept". That makes me wonder why.
What makes visitors (laymen) generally more knowledgable than studied
curators? As I am informed, it is one of the main issues and
responsabilities of museums to inform the visitors, not the visitors to
inform museum staff or other visitors. As I am informed, such a place
wook loose the right to call itself museum, as main ICOM duties of a
museum are not performed.
I would not even go so far to call such an idea "concept". It looks like
a joke or game, an experiment without control, and based in doubts in
the abilities of museum professionals.
For all people promoting such an idea I would just suggest: Visit
incognito an exhibition of any kind (art or other), listen to the
visitors and their remarks. I do this as often as I can. You will be
surprised... It very, very often starts with nonsense, wrong object
identification, goes to false historical remarks, and ends in wrong
connections to present and future.
Oil in the fire?
Best regards
Christian
"Marieke Van Damme" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
Hello-
I was just reading my latest issue of the Curator
Journal (p. 122) about the Brooklyn Museum of Art and
the National Museum of the American Indian having
"community curators", that is, "ordinary" museumgoers,
write the object labels in exhibits. Has anyone done
this with success/failure? Is there a place I can go
to learn more about it? I think it is a great concept
but I'd like to see who else has tried it.
Thanks,
Marieke
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