The myths of museology: on deconstructing, reconstructing, and redistributing

Museology was invented as a way to look at the diversity of museums through a single “scientific” lens. Behind the assumption that museology could be a science – one that was in the foundation of this international committee (ICOFOM) – there was the idea promoted by some of our founding figures tha...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/iss,
Egile nagusia: Brulon Soares, Bruno
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: ICOFOM Study Series 2022
Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:Museology was invented as a way to look at the diversity of museums through a single “scientific” lens. Behind the assumption that museology could be a science – one that was in the foundation of this international committee (ICOFOM) – there was the idea promoted by some of our founding figures that one single branch of knowledge could serve the study of the plurality of museums. A claim of universality, according to which “the embryonic nucleus of museology must have existed since a long ti...