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Analysing the adjectival museum : exploring the bureaucratic nature of museums and the implications for researchers and the research process

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Gray, Clive and McCall, Vikkki (2018) Analysing the adjectival museum : exploring the bureaucratic nature of museums and the implications for researchers and the research process. Museum and Society, 16 (2). pp. 124-137.

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Abstract

The proliferation of titles for types of museum has resulted in an adjectival explosion in recent years (with museums being engaging, relevant, professional, adaptive, community, national, universal, local, independent, people’s, children’s, scientific, natural history, labour, virtual, symbolic, connected, trust and charitable, amongst many other labels). This paper argues that the adoption of an organizational focus on bureaucratic features such as hierarchical authority, centralisation of power, functional specialisation and research processes can show commonalities in the understandings and challenges linked to museum function. The emphasis on museums as a specific institutional and organizational form allows for the identification and explanation of similarities and differences in their operational existence that extends beyond their particular individual natures. This also implies that the bureaucratic nature of museums has implications for researchers as they are organizations that reflect gender and power dynamics on a micro-level within the research process.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Museums, Bureaucracy, Cultural industries
Journal or Publication Title: Museum and Society
Publisher: University of Leicester * Department of Museum Studies
Official Date: 23 July 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
23 July 2018Published
3 March 2018Accepted
Volume: 16
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 124-137
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 7 August 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 7 August 2018

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