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The
theme "Museums: building community" can be
adapted to all types of museums and to all countries
in the world. The accounts given in the pages that
follow illustrate diverse aspects of the theme through
concrete examples. Thus, in a Swedish initiative,
"Keys
to Memory", where personal objects
placed in the museum represent personal histories
and experience, the museum acts as mediator for the
diverse local populations and as a vector for exchange
and shared understanding. The conception of the museum
as both building and built by local communities emerges
from the Fresnes Ecomuseum
in France, which brings the museum to local inhabitants
and local inhabitants to the museum, through a range
of innovative participatory projects. One step further
in this direction, and the museum becomes a centre
developed and managed by the community, as in our
example from the High
Atlas mountains of Morocco. A different
aspect of the relationship between the museum and
the community is offered by the Immigration
Museum in Australia, which presents
through its displays the collective memory of a country
built on immigration, while also targeting specific
local communities through tailored activities in a
variety of languages. The museum thus builds a new
community of visitors who might never otherwise have
taken an interest in museums. A virtual
museum from Uruguay gives a further
perspective on the museum's role as actively building
a community of museum visitors, harnessing new technologies
to this concept and addressing the issues at stake.
The bibliography will give you a broader perspective
on the reflexions around the theme over the last few
years.
Articles
around the theme:
 EXCHANGE
- Key
to memory
INNOVATION
- Cyberspace
Communities: MUVA, the Virtual Museum Of Arts El País
DEVELOPEMENT
- A
model community museum in a village in the High Atlas
INTEGRATION
- Celebrating
Australia's multicultural history
PARTICIPATION
- A
community regulates its own heritage
Articles
published in: "ICOM News", Volume 54 - 2001
N°1
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