-
Recent Posts
- Research outcomes
- Visitor studies at European national museums
- Museum Policies in Europe 1990 – 2010: Negotiating Professional and Political Utopia
- Museum Reforms in Norway and “Talking Europe” in Museums and Research
- Contemporary national museums, the classical heritage, postnationalism and multicultural nations
Archives
Cultural policy blogs
Museum and museology blogs
-
Join 72 other subscribers
Categories
Meta
Category Archives: Cultural policy
Research outcomes
During Eunamus three years of research the project has published nine open access reports and organized twelve conferences and workshops all over Europe. There are three ways to get a quick overview of Eunamus’ findings and policy implications. 1) National Museums … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural policy, Research
Leave a comment
Visitor studies at European national museums
Read more on the ways in which national majorities and minorities relate to national museums in two open access reports produced by the Eunamus project. Voices from the Museum: Survey Research in Europe’s National Museums Alexandra Bounia, Alexandra Nikiforidou, Niki Nikonanou & Albert Dicran Matossian … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural policy, Research
Leave a comment
Museum Policies in Europe 1990 – 2010: Negotiating Professional and Political Utopia
Lill Eilertsen & Arne Bugge Amundsen (eds) This blog post recycles elements from the report’s section Key findings. We are curious of your reactions, and comments are welcome. This EuNaMus report studies how nations develop policy in order to deploy national museums in national redefinition. It … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural policy, Research
Leave a comment
Museum Reforms in Norway and “Talking Europe” in Museums and Research
Knowledge about policy making processes is crucial for the Eunamus project. On the one hand Eunamus investigates the political functions of national museums and the agency they have in relation to shifting ideological agendas. On the other hand, Eunamus is funded by the 7th framework of … Continue reading
Eunamus at the conference Re-theoretisation of heritage
Two panels on the first day of The inaugural conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies in Gothenburg 5-8 June are organised of researchers involved in the three-year research project Eunamus on European national museums. José María Lanzarote-Guiral and Andrzej Jakubowski (including Felicity Bodenstein) has initated a … Continue reading
How to talk about the unspeakable?
Peter Aronsson The Balkan wars in the 1990’s are ever-present for a visitor to Balkan. Mostly as silences. An unspoken mix of allegations, guilt and suffering is hard to give a format in ordinary cultural institutions and polite society. In … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural policy, General
Leave a comment
Museums between National and European Identities
By Bodil Axelsson This post reports from the panels on Eunamus research and the creation of new history museums held at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, the Cinquantenaire Museum, the 25th of January. The panels were co-organised … Continue reading
Are national museums prepared for Creative Europe?
Creativity and diversity, these two buzzwords are at the heart of the new EU programme dedicated to the cultural and creative sectors, and proposed by the European Commission on 23 November 2011. During the next year the proposal Creative Europe, will … Continue reading
National museums of Australia
Peter Aronsson Where is it? Laurajane Smith and Kylie Message, Australia National University, are the best guides you could imagine for an understanding of the dynamics of the Australian National Museum since it opened in 2001. They make me understand … Continue reading
Balkan history – facilitating dialogues on conflicting pasts – blogpost by Peter Aronsson
Anthony Krause at the UNESCO office of Venice has called on national history museums in South East Europe to work together on a traveling exhibition. Museum leaders from 12 countries met for the third time in Torino 5-6 October for … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural policy, General
Leave a comment
Unfolding Eunamus 