ABSTRACT
Community heritage is a notion that is referred to so often and so effortlessly that one might consider it unhelpful to unpick the association – over-analysis might cause the essence of the relationship to be lost when the pieces are pulled apart and considered individually. That is not the goal of this chapter; instead, its purpose is to explore that relationship, to reveal the nature of the connections, and to discover why the two so often come together. The chapter uses recent experiences of how community has been associated with heritage, museums and display to demonstrate the appeal of one for the other.
