ABSTRACT
‘The nation’s museums and galleries are under the spotlight as never before. Changes in funding and management are clearly inevitable and an increasing number of directors now argue that these must be radical and rapid… In the heartland of the traditional museum business the vision of tomorrow is still obscure. The battlefield will be the marketplace and the casualties will be those museums that fail to appreciate the public no longer lives in the 19th century… the culture must change’ (Director of the Science Museum, The Times, 1.5.1988).
