ABSTRACT
Note by the Editor of Museum International in 1999: The Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery, Library and Archives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has become one of Canada’s top cultural institutions with an international reputation for exhibitions, programmes and publications. Robert R. Janes, its President and Chief Executive Officer since 1989, is known as a leading voice in the changes taking place in Canada’s cultural institutions. His most recent book, Museums and the Paradox of Change (1997), is a candid approach to controversial changes in a major cultural organization and speaks to the vital need for a shift in thinking as museums enter the twenty-first century. In this chapter he sets out some basic premises for change in today’s museum context.
