Margaret Hayon wrote requesting some info on ecomuseums - the following may
be of interest to Margaret and others interested in  museums and
empowement:


Museum (UNESCO publication) No. 37, 1985.  This issue includes articles by
Geoerges Henri Riviere and Hugues de Varine - pioneers of the term and
advocates for museum reform as well as a charter document outlining the
aspirations and aims of ecomuseums - The Declaration of Quebec.
Hudson also in 1992 reviewed the ecomuseum movement - Museums Journal,
April, and Poulet in Sherman & Regoff's Museum Culture carried a rather
condemnatory critique of them.

Also of interest and along the At-Chin experience is an account of the
Cumbe Womens Museum in Equador which has been described in a special issue
of Museum (UNESCO) on women (No. 171, 1991).

There is a discussion of ecomuseums in our book - Museums and Citizenship:
A Resource Book (Memoirs of the Qld Museum, V.39, p.1, May 1996 - in the
chapter on Museums and communities (Access and Participation).




Robin Trotter
Research Fellow
Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy
Faculty of Arts
Griffith University
Nathan
Brisbane
Queensland 4111
Tel: 07 3878 3145 (h)