McCall, Vikki and Gray, Clive (2014) Museums and the ‘new museology’ : theory, practice and organisational change. Museum Management and Curatorship, Volume 29 (Number 1). pp. 19-35. doi:10.1080/09647775.2013.869852 ISSN 0964-7775.

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Abstract

The widening of roles and expectations within cultural policy discourses has been a challenge to museum workers throughout Great Britain. There has been an expectation that museums are changing from an ‘old’ to a ‘new museology’ that has shaped museum functions and roles. This paper outlines the limitations of this perceived transition as museum services confront multiple exogenous and endogenous expectations, opportunities, pressures and threats. Findings from 23 publically funded museum services across England, Scotland and Wales are presented to explore the roles of professional and hierarchical differentiation, and how there were organisational and managerial limitations to the practical application of the ‘new museology’. The ambiguity surrounding policy, roles and practice also highlighted that museum workers were key agents in interpreting, using and understanding wide-ranging policy expectations. The practical implementation of the ‘new museology’ is linked to the values held by museum workers themselves and how they relate it to their activities at the ground level.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Museum techniques -- Great Britain, Organizational change -- Great Britain, Great Britain -- Cultural policy
Journal or Publication Title:	Museum Management and Curatorship
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	0964-7775
Official Date:	2014
Dates:	Date Event 2014 Published
Volume:	Volume 29
Number:	Number 1
Page Range:	pp. 19-35
DOI:	10.1080/09647775.2013.869852
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	26 December 2015
Date of first compliant Open Access:	26 December 2015
Funder:	British Academy (BA)
Grant number:	SG111848 (BA)

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