Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed
reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social
practice central to the project of creating change in the museum.
Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and
interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores
contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather
than a burden of compliance. The volume represents diverse strands
in museum activity from exhibitions to marketing, as ethics is
embedded in all areas of the museum sector. What the contributions
share is an understanding of the contingent nature of museum ethics
in the twenty-first century -- its relations with complex economic,
social, political and technological forces and its fluid
ever-shifting sensibility. The volume examines contemporary museum
ethics through the prism of those disciplines and methods that have
shaped it most. It argues for a museum ethics discourse defined by
social responsibility, radical transparency and shared guardianship
of heritage. And it demonstrates the moral agency of museums: the
concept that museum ethics is more than the personal and
professional ethics of individuals and concerns the capacity of
institutions to generate self-reflective and activist practice.
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