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In the 21st century, participation is one of the key words related to the operations of museums and debate around them. The public are encouraged to co-create museum projects: exhibitions, programmes that accompany exhibitions, studies; they play the role of consultants and advisors (youth councils, clubs, consultancy teams). Museums are more and more widely ‘opening’ to embrace the public. Never...
ICOM’s decision to revise the museum definition valid as of 2007 was accounted for with the need to adjust the existing statutory phrasing to meet the challenges museums face in the 21st century. Having adjourned the vote on the new definition at the Extraordinary General Assembly in Kyoto in 2019, the organisation suffered a leadership crisis. In late 2020, in order to reform the management, a new...
During the 26th ICOM General Conference in Prague in 2022 a new museum definition was adopted. However, debates on it are much older, and while reaching merely the previous 25th ICOM General Conference held in Kyoto in 2019 let us recall that it was there that an aborted attempt at introducing the new museum definition, much differing from the current one, took place. It is the normative and legal...