ABSTRACT
Revisiting Museums of Influence presents 50 portraits of a range of European museums that have made striking innovations in public quality over the past 40 years. In so doing, the book demonstrates that excellence can be found in museums no matter their subject matter, scale, or source of funding.
Written by leading professionals in the field of museology, who have acted as judges for the European Museum of the Year Award, the portraits describe museums that had, or should have had, an influence on other museums around the world. The portraits aim to capture the moment when this potential was identified, and the introduction will locate the institutions in the wider history of museums in Europe over the period, as well as drawing out common themes of change and innovation that unite the portraits.
Providing many very diverse portraits, Revisiting Museums of Influence captures the immense capacity of the museum to respond to changing societal needs. As a result, the book will be essential reading for students of museology and museum professionals around the world in shaping the museums they wish to create. Scholars and students of art history, archaeology, ethnography, anthropology, cultural and visual studies, architecture, memory studies and history will also find much to interest them.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|26 pages
Introduction
part 2|202 pages
Museum portraits
chapter 1|4 pages
Ironbridge Gorge Museum
chapter 2|4 pages
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
chapter 3|4 pages
Catharine Convent State Museum
chapter 4|4 pages
Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation ‘V. Papandoniou’
chapter 6|4 pages
The Museum of Farming and Crafts of Calabria
chapter 9|4 pages
The Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia
chapter 12|3 pages
Museum of the Romanian Peasant
chapter 13|4 pages
National Conservation Centre (National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside)
chapter 18|4 pages
The British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum
chapter 19|4 pages
MARQ Archaeological Museum of Alicante
chapter 20|4 pages
La Piscine, André Diligent Art and Industrial Museum
chapter 21|4 pages
Netherlands Open-Air Museum
chapter 22|4 pages
German Emigration Centre
chapter 25|4 pages
Tampere 1918 – Museum of the Finnish Civil War
chapter 35|4 pages
MuCEM – Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations
chapter 36|4 pages
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum
chapter 43|4 pages
Mémorial ACTe, Caribbean Centre of Expressions and Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery
chapter 44|4 pages
Museum of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin
chapter 49|4 pages
War Childhood Museum
chapter 50|4 pages
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
part 3|18 pages
European Museum of the Year Awards 1977–2019