museology
Let an agent explain museology as a field, relay theory, practice and professional standards from museum studies and ICOM sources with attribution, describe museography and ecomuseology, and distinguish museology from museography, archival science, conservation and public history, noting aliases that name programmes.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain museology as a field, relay theory, practice and professional standards from museum studies and ICOM sources with attribution, describe museography and ecomuseology, and distinguish museology from museography, archival science, conservation and public history, noting aliases that name programmes.
The study of museums, their history, social role, collections, curation, education and management, including museography, the practical techniques of display and conservation, ecomuseology, which treats a territory and its community as a museum, and the study of heritage collections and interpretation; the registry aliases also name specific university programmes, such as Maori and Pacific Peoples curatorial, archive and museum studies and a Serbian heritage and public history programme, which are courses rather than the discipline.
What it is for: Understanding and running museums.
It can be explain the field; relay theory and standards; describe subfields; distinguish related fields.
Distinguishing features
Museum focused
Theory and practice
Community approaches
Professional ethics
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a discipline.
Physical character
ICOM founded: 1946 year
ICOM museum definition revised: 2022 year - Prague
ecomuseum concept: 1971 year - Riviere and de Varine
How it is recognised
Study of museums
Museography, ecomuseology, heritage collections and interpretation; named university programmes
Museography is display practice; archival science handles records; conservation treats objects; public history presents history
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
studies -
is guided by -
includes - as practical technique
In practice
Families and kinds
theoretical museology
museography
ecomuseology and new museology
critical and decolonial museology
Indigenous curatorial studies
digital museology
Standards and regulation
ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums
Museum accreditation schemes
Cultural property and repatriation laws
Failure modes and hazards
Partisan framing of repatriation debates
Registry aliases naming university programmes
Confusing museology with museography
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What museology is.
Attribution.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is museology, and how does it differ from museography, archival science, conservation and public history? definition
- Is the question about the field, a subfield, a programme or museum practice? boundary
Subfields
Subfields.
Subfields
Subfields.
- What are museography, ecomuseology, critical museology and Indigenous curatorial studies? definition
- Which entry fits the specific subfield or programme? action
Theory Theory.
Attribution.
Definitions
Museum definitions.
Definitions
Definitions.
- How has ICOM defined the museum, and what was debated in 2019 and 2022, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Critical
Critical museology.
Critical
Critical.
- What do new, critical and decolonial museologies argue, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Practice Practice.
Regulation.
Collections
Collections.
Collections
Collections.
- How are collections acquired, documented, interpreted and cared for? provenance
- Which entry fits collections management? action
Ethics
Ethics and repatriation.
Ethics
Ethics.
- What do ethics codes and laws say about provenance and repatriation, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context History and education.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did museology develop as a discipline? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of museums? action
Education
Education.
Education
Education.
- How is museology taught, including Indigenous and regional programmes? provenance
- Which entry fits museum studies? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should museography and ecomuseology be separate primary entries?
- How should museum studies sources be linked?
- The registry aliases naming university programmes should be split off as instances