Revisiting museums of influence : four decades of innovation and public quality in European museums / edited by Mark O'Neill, Jette Sandahl and Marlen Mouliou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Neill, Mark, 1956- editor.

Sandahl, Jette, editor.

Mouliou, Marlen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Europe--History.

Museums.

European Museum of the Year Award--History.

European Museum of the Year Award.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"Revisiting Museums of Influence presents 50 portraits of a range of European museums that have made striking innovations in public quality over the past forty 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Part I: Introduction

I

Museum revolutions and progressive traditions

What are museums for? The paradox of 'public quality'

Progress: invention, innovation, and imitation

Beyond best practice: meeting a social need

II

Memorability

Collections

The communication revolution

Museums and time: past, present and future

Time for healing

Architecture and space

Beyond economic regeneration

Politics and 'the human approach'

How much reality can museums bear?

III

The British - and European - origins of EMYA

A British award becomes European

Who applies? Who wins?

The question of scale

Judging museums

Comparing the incomparable

IV

The museum boom

The audience boom

Democratisation and museumification

References

Part II: Museum portraits

Chapter 1: Ironbridge Gorge Museum: Telford, United Kingdom: European Museum of the Year Award 1977

Chapter 2: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Copenhagen, Denmark: European Museum of the Year Award 1978

Reference

Chapter 3: Catharine Convent State Museum: Utrecht, The Netherlands: European Museum of the Year Award 1980

Chapter 4: Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation 'V. Papandoniou': Nafplion, Greece: European Museum of the Year Award 1981

Chapter 5: Stockholm Music Museum: Stockholm, Sweden: Council of Europe Museum Prize 1981

Chapter 6: The Museum of Farming and Crafts of Calabria: Monterosso, Calabria, Italy: Special Commendation 1984

Chapter 7: Quarry Bank Mill: Styal, United Kingdom: Special Commendation 1984

Chapter 8: Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre: Vantaa, Finland: Special Commendation 1990

Reference.

Chapter 9: The Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia: Nicosia, Cyprus: European Museum of the Year Award 1991

Chapter 10: The Vasa Museum: Stockholm, Sweden: Special Commendation 1992

Chapter 11: Alta Museum: Alta, Norway: European Museum of the Year Award 1993

Chapter 12: Museum of the Romanian Peasant: Bucharest, Romania: European Museum of the Year Award 1996

Chapter 13: National Conservation Centre (National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside): Liverpool, United: Kingdom European Museum of the Year Award 1998

Chapter 14: Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre: Krasnoyarsk, Russia: Council of Europe Museum Prize 1998

Chapter 15: Guggenheim Museum: Bilbao, Spain: European Museum of the Year 2000

Herald of the new millennium

A gigantic futuristic sculpture

From the idea to the opening

Collections and collecting

Targeted visitor services

A star is born

Note

Chapter 16: In Flanders Fields Museum: Ypres, Belgium: Council of Europe Museum Prize 2000

Chapter 17: Chester Beatty Library: Dublin, Ireland: European Museum of the Year Award 2002

Chapter 18: The British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum: London, United Kingdom: European Museum of the Year Award 2003

Chapter 19: MARQ Archaeological Museum of Alicante: Alicante, Spain: European Museum of the Year Award 2004

Chapter 20: La Piscine, André Diligent Art and Industrial Museum: Roubaix, France: Special Commendation 2004

Chapter 21: Netherlands Open-Air Museum: Arnhem, The Netherlands: European Museum of the Year Award 2005

Chapter 22: German Emigration Centre: Bremerhaven, Germany: European Museum of the Year Award 2007

Chapter 23: Museum of Portimão: Portimão, Portugal: Council of Europe Museum Prize 2010

Treasures by the river.

Testimonies of local history

From Stone Age to sardines

City pride

A permanent observer and central booster

Knocks on the door

A most welcoming museum

Chapter 24: Museum of Broken Relationships: Zagreb, Croatia: Kenneth Hudson Award 2011

A museum of feelings

A museum of people's stories

The museum as a work of art

The nature of museum collections

Chapter 25: Tampere 1918 - Museum of the Finnish Civil War: Tampere, Finland: Special Commendation 2011

Chapter 26: Madinat al-Zahra: Museum Cordoba, Spain: European Museum of the Year Award 2012

Where power was on display

The archaeological site is the protagonist, the museum a supporting character

Our past is plural

Respect for and protection of the patrimonies

Epitomising museums at their best

Chapter 27: Glasnevin Cemetery Museum: Dublin, Ireland Kenneth Hudson Award 2012

Daniel O'Connell and Glasnevin Cemetery

A living place

Modest and beautiful

A true historian's heaven

The City of the Dead

A place of reconciliation

Welcoming

European dimension

Chapter 28: Archaeological Museum Ioaninna: Ioannina, Greece: Candidate 2012

Chapter 29: Museum of Liverpool: Liverpool, United Kingdom: Council of Europe Museum Prize 2013

A museum about us, with us and for everyone!

Welcome to Museum of Liverpool!

Serving communities, promoting equality, fostering citizenship

Chapter 30: National Maritime Museum: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Special Commendation 2013

Chapter 31: The Museum of Innocence: Istanbul, Turkey: European Museum of the Year Award 2014

A fictional story transcribed into a factual museum of the city

Who has not been obsessed, consumed by love?

Paraphrasing museum languages

Equidistant from the East and the West

Aftershocks

Endnote

References.

Chapter 32: Baksi Museum: Bayburt, Turkey: Council of Europe Museum Prize 2014

The sustainability of cultural memory 1

Interweaving collections, production and exhibitions

A point of cultural interaction and of cultural resistance

Sustainability

The museum as an agent for social change

A museological model of hope

Chapter 33: Žanis Lipke Memorial: Riga, Latvia: Kenneth Hudson Award 2014

Chapter 34: Rijksmuseum: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: European Museum of the Year 2015

Chapter 35: MuCEM - Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations: Marseille, France: Council of Europe Museum Prize 2015

Mediterranean civilisations are so close!

A social, cultural and citizenship meeting point

Openness, attractiveness and inclusiveness

Chapter 36: The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum: Geneva, Switzerland: The Kenneth Hudson Award 2015

Chapter 37: The Mary Rose Museum: Portsmouth, United Kingdom: Special Commendation 2015

Chapter 38: Sasso San Gottardo Museum: Gotthard, Switzerland: Candidate 2015

Chapter 39: European Solidarity Centre: Gdan´sk, Poland: Council of Europe Museum Prize 2016

'Learn from history, and decide upon the future'

Solidarity

A meeting place for exploring what an open democratic society means

A museum driven and governed by its mission and its values

Chapter 40: Odderøya Museum Harbour: Kristiansand, Norway: Candidate 2016

Chapter 41: Benfica FC Museum and FC Porto Museum: Lisbon, Porto, Portugal: Candidates 2016

Chapter 42: Yaroslavl Art Museum: Yaroslavl, Russia: Candidate 2016

Chapter 43: Mémorial ACTe, Caribbean Centre of Expressions and Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery: Guadeloupe, France: Council of Europe Museum Prize 2017

A place of living memory

The act of remembrance as a tool to help build a new society.

A new inter- and transdisciplinarity

Democratisation of culture

Bold, unflinching and gracious

Chapter 44: Museum of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin: Yekaterinburg, Russia: The Kenneth Hudson Award 2017

Chapter 45: The Old Town Museum: Aarhus, Denmark: Special Commendation 2017

Urban history

Bringing the 1970s to life

Open-mindedness and critical engagement

New collecting

Truthful

Social relevance

Sustainable participation and relevance to contemporary Europe

Chapter 46: Museum of Confluences: Lyon, France: Special Commendation 2017

Chapter 47: Silesian Museum: Katowice, Poland: Special Commendation 2017

From the hard power of the coalmines to the soft power of culture

A museum of many virtues

Chapter 48: Marubi National Museum of Photography: Shkodra, Albania: Candidate 2017

The Marubi brand

'A museum can change a city!'

A museum reinvents its present through its past

A museum team in the Marubi genealogy chain

Chapter 49: War Childhood Museum: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Council of Europe Museum Prize 2018

Inspiring and memorable at first sight

A museum as a method for collective healing

A success story with a sustainable future

Chapter 50: Rijksmuseum Boerhaave: Leiden, The Netherlands: European Museum of the Year Award 2019

Part III: European Museum of the Year Awards 1977-2019

List of contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-300397-4

1-003-00397-4

1-000-26217-0

1-000-26219-7

9781003003977

OCLC:

1182019846