This book considers key ethical questions in museum policy and
practice, particularly those related to issues of collection and
display. What does a collection signify in the twenty-first century
museum? How does an engagement with immateriality challenge museums
concept of ownership, and how does that immateriality translate
into the design of exhibitions and museum space? Are museums still
about safeguarding objects, and what does safeguarding mean for
diverse individuals and communities today? How does the notion of
the museum as a performative space challenge our perceptions of the
object?
The scholarship represented in this volume is a testament to the
range and significance of critical inquiry in museum ethics.
Together, the chapters resist a legalistic interpretation, bound by
codes and common practice, to advance an ethics discourse that is
richly theorized, constantly changing and contingent on diverse
external factors. Contributors take stock of innovative research to
articulate a new museum ethics founded on the moral agency of
museums, the concept that museums have both the capacity and the
responsibility to create social change.
This book is based on a special issue of "Museum Management and
Curatorship."
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