Could we add to "museum theory" some new tasks: museum shop, out reach
programs, coffee shop or museum restaurant, camp-in programs, or science
centres which do not collect object or do not study "the material culture".
Are these venues museums? If not, how do we call them?
Greetings
Peter, the Rebernik

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Von: Doug Lantry <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.museum-l
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Datum: Freitag, 15. Mai 1998 16:52
Betreff: Re: Museum Theory


>Museum theory--the set of beliefs, principles, policies, abstract thought
>and concrete precedent and procedure used as guidelines for practice in
>the museum's functions of collecting, preserving, exhibiting,
>interpreting, and studying the material culture in its care.
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>Whew!
>
>That's my stab at a definition. Anyone care to amend or annotate? (or
>snipe at?)
>
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>Doug Lantry
>The Ohio Historical Society
>Statehouse Education and Visitors Center
>Columbus, Ohio
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