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Normative and legal consequences of adopting a new ICOM museum definition

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Zeidler K.
Muzealnictwo
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2023
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vol. 64
106-109
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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 consequences of the adoption of the new ICOM museum definition that are the subject of the paper. It is possible for the normative ICOM output to be implemented in the domestic legal regulations. Interpretations and observations related to the question are contained in the paper, however they finally lead to the conclusion that the literal wording of the museum definition as such is not of major importance. As for the tendency, this shows the extension of the name’s range although not conducted entirely spontaneously and freely.
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Withdraw forward, please! On participation policy in ICOM’s works on the ‘prague museum definition’

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Lorenc M.
Muzealnictwo
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2022
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vol. 63
165-172
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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 methodology of working on the definition was introduced. Its foundation was to be sought in participatory policy, namely redistribution of authority. Interestingly, this approach was facilitated by the application of remote communication forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. In harmony with the adopted time schedule the extensive and multi-stage process was to climax with the vote on the adoption/ rejection of the new museum definition during the subsequent Extraordinary General Assembly in Prague on 24 August 2022. As a result of the participation in consultations of 126 out of the 178 eligible Committees, the ‘Prague museum definition’ was phrased as a compromise between the 2007 statutory definition valid until then and the ‘Kyoto definition’. On the essential issues, i.e., answering the question: ‘what is a museum?’, it actually retained the earlier regulation: a museum is a not-for-profit permanent institution. This yielded the question about the purposefulness of the works conducted in 2020–2022, based on the new participation paradigm, which the present paper attempts to answer.
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MUSEUM DIVERSITY THROUGH THE LENS OF THE KYOTO DEFINITION

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Mairesse F.
Muzealnictwo
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2020
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vol. 61
75-79
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The author analyses the logic underlying the ICOM museum definition process and the sense of continuity among the different definitions, since its creation in 1946. The new definition proposed in Kyoto in 2019 (during the ICOM General Conference, 1–7 September) created a risk of breaking within this continuity and the museum community. The definition process is here put in parallel with the notion of mission statement, associated with strategic management, and the value system linked to a resolutely activist vision of the museum, integrating such topics as gender, postcolonialism, sustainable development or human rights.
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POLITICAL UNDERTONE OF THE NEW ICOM MUSEUM DEFINITION, OR MANEUVERING A TRANSATLANTIC AMONG ICEBERGS

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Lorenc M.
Muzealnictwo
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2020
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vol. 61
164-171
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The museum definition is of systemic importance for ICOM, since it demarcates the area of activity of this international non-governmental organization grouping museum curators. The answer to the question whether the new museum definition presented at the ICOM General Conference in Kyoto on 1–7 September 2019 reveal a political undertone is sought. The majority of the attendees did not support the put-forth proposal, opting to postpone the vote on its acceptance. What I mean by the ‘political undertone of the new museum definition’ is that the definiens takes into account the fact that museums are institutions tangled up in exerting power and applying symbolic violence. According to the Kyoto definition museums are identified with critical museums, treated as space for public debate directed at the future. This vision did not convince the majority, since it excluded many institutions until now regarded to be museums from the museum category. As such, the Kyoto definition turned out not to be a definition, but a political manifesto of a group of museum curators. Additionally, not being coherent, it proved useless for phrasing legislative acts.
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HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM CONCEPT AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES: INTRODUCTION INTO THE DEBATE ON THE NEW ICOM MUSEUM DEFINITION

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Folga-Januszewska D.
Muzealnictwo
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2020
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vol. 61
39-57
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The topic discussed in the paper is the change and evolution the concept of museum (Greek: museion, Latin: musaeum) has been undergoing for over 2500 years, as well as many of its different meanings: from the definition of a spot in space, including a place of worship, up to the name of learning form, research and knowledge centre, collection of texts and poetry, music and theatre festival, synonyms of a dictionary and encyclopaedia, library and a secluded study spot, up to large institutions co-creating culture and educating socially. Once museums had become social institutions, the process of defining their organizational form and their mission limits began. The International Council of Museums (ICOM), as an organization grouping museum employees and museologists, namely both practitioners and theoreticians, ever since its establishment in 1946 has on a number of occasions initiated works on a shared definition of museum. The paper assembles all the ICOM-proposed definitions in 1946–2007 presented both in English and Polish. The latest proposal submitted at the Kyoto ICOM General Conference on 7 September 2019 (Annex 1), however, for the first time aroused a heated debate and was not finally voted on by the ICOM General Assembly; instead, the debate has continued on the proposed phrasing since. The historical overview of the museum concept and the history of the ICOM museum definition presented against the opinions of invited Polish museum professionals is the ‘record of time’, documenting the considerations on the role and tasks of museum in contemporary society.
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Participation of the public in Polish museums

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Jagodzińska K.
Muzealnictwo
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2021
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issue 62
189-197
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W XXI w. partycypacja jest jednym z najważniejszych słów kluczowych odnoszących się do działalności muzeów i dyskusji wokół nich. Publiczność zachęcana jest do współtworzenia muzealnych projektów – wystaw, programów towarzyszących wystawom, badań; występuje w charakterze konsultantów i doradców (rady młodzieżowe, kluby, zespoły doradcze). Muzea coraz szerzej „otwierają się” na publiczność. Nigdy wcześniej w historii muzeów pozycja odbiorcy nie była tak znacząca. Artykuł jest przekrojowym spojrzeniem na programy partycypacyjne w polskich muzeach. Autorka dokonuje w nim kategoryzacji i charakterystyki projektów partycypacyjnych, umiejscawia je w filozofii działania muzeów, w szczególności z odniesieniem do zmieniającej się roli muzeów, która jest aktualnie dyskutowana na gruncie Międzynarodowej Rady Muzeów w kontekście nowej definicji muzeum, a także prezentuje wstępne wnioski wypływające z realizacji takich projektów dla muzeów. W artykule wykorzystany został materiał z wywiadów przeprowadzonych podczas projektu Atlas muzealnej partycypacji realizowanego w ramach stypendium Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego.
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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 before has the position of visitors been as significant. An overview of participatory programmes in Polish museums is provided. They are classified and characterized by the Author who places them within the philosophy of museum operations, particularly with respect to the altering role of museums, currently debated over within ICOM, with the context of the new museum definition in mind; furthermore, she presents the initial conclusions drawn from the implementation of such projects for museums. In the paper the material from interviews conducted as part of the Atlas of Museum Participation Project implemented with a grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has been used.
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