Revisiting Museums of Influence: Four Decades of Innovation and Public Quality in European Museums

by Mark O'Neill (Editor), Jette Sandahl (Editor), Marlen Mouliou (Editor)

Overview

Revisiting Museums of Influence presents 50 portraits of a range of European museums that have made striking innovations in public quality over the past 40 years. In so doing, the book demonstrates that excellence can be found in museums no matter their subject matter, scale, or source of funding.

Written by leading professionals in the field of museology, who have acted as judges for the European Museum of the Year Award, the portraits describe museums that had, or should have had, an influence on other museums around the world. The portraits aim to capture the moment when this potential was identified, and the introduction will locate the institutions in the wider history of museums in Europe over the period, as well as drawing out common themes of change and innovation that unite the portraits.

Providing many very diverse portraits, Revisiting Museums of Influence captures the immense capacity of the museum to respond to changing societal needs. As a result, the book will be essential reading for students of museology and museum professionals around the world in shaping the museums they wish to create. Scholars and students of art history, archaeology, ethnography, anthropology, cultural and visual studies, architecture, memory studies and history will also find much to interest them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367435417
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/30/2020
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mark O’Neill is an independent researcher and consultant and former Head of Glasgow Museums; Chair of the European Museum of the Year Jury; Associate Professor, College of Arts, Glasgow University; Research Fellow, Museum Studies, Leicester University; and Adviser, Event Communications, London.

Jette Sandahl has been the founding director for two pioneering new museums, the Women’s Museum of Denmark and the Museum of World Cultures in Sweden. She has served as Director of Exhibitions and Public Programmes at the National Museum of Denmark, and as Director Experience at National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Most recently, she was director of the Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is Chair of the European Museum Forum, which oversees the European Museum of the Year Award.

Marlen Mouliou is Assistant Professor of Museology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens-NKUA. From 2010 to 2016, she served as Secretary and Chair of the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities (ICOM-CAMOC). Since 2016, she has been Member of the Panel of Judges for the European Museum of the Year Award and Vice-Chair of the European Academic Heritage Network (UNIVERSEUM).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Illustrations xiii

Part 1 Introduction Mark O'Neill Jette Sandahl Marlen Mouliou 1

Part 2 Museum portraits 27

1 Ironbridge Gorge Museum Massimo Negri 28

2 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Massimo Negri 32

3 Catharine Convent State Museum Ann Nicholls 36

4 Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation 'V. Papandoniou' Peter Schirmbeck 40

5 Stockholm Music Museum Peter Schirmbeck 44

6 The Museum of Farming and Crafts of Calabria Peter Schirmbeck 48

7 Quarry Bank Mill Peter Schirmbeck 52

8 Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre Wim van der Weiden 56

9 The Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia Wim van der Weiden f 60

10 TheVasa Museum Ann Nicholls 64

11 Aka Museum Ann Nicholls 68

12 Museum of the Romanian Peasant J. Patrick Greene 72

13 National Conservation Centre (National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside) Wim van der Weiden 76

14 Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre J. Patrick Greene 80

15 Guggenheim Museum Maritta Pitkänen 84

16 In Flanders Fields Museum J. Patrick Greene 88

17 Chester Beatty Library Wim van der Weiden 92

18 The British Galleries at the Victoria and Albeit Museum Massimo Negri 96

19 MARQ Archaeological Museum of Alicante Massimo Negri 100

20 La Piscine, Andre Diligent Art and Industrial Museum Wim van der Weiden 104

21 Netherlands Open-Air Museum Mikhail Gnedovsky 108

22 German Emigration Centre Ann Nicholls 112

23 Museum, of Portimao Jouetta van der Ploeg 116

24 Museum of Broken Relationships Sirje Hehne 120

25 Tampere 1918-Museum of the Finnish Civil War Mikhail Gnedovsky 124

26 Madinat al-Zahra Museum Jette Sandahl 128

27 Glasnevin Cemetery Museum Jouetta van der Ploeg 132

28 Archaeological Museum Ioannina Michael Ryan 136

29 Museum of Liverpool Jose Gameiro 140

30 National Maritime Museum Jahangir Selimkhanov 144

31 The Museum of Innocence Jette Sandahl 148

32 Baksi Museum Jette Sandahl 152

33 Zanis Lipke Memorial Mikhail Gnedovsky 156

34 Rijksmuseum Michael Ryan 160

35 MuCEM - Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations José Gameiro 164

36 The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum Jahangir Selimkhanov 168

37 The Mary Rose Museum Michael Ryan 172

38 Sasso San Gottardo Museum Jahangir Selimkhanov 176

39 European Solidarity Centre Jette Sandahl 180

40 Odderøya Museum Harbour Jahangir Selimkhanov 184

41 Benfica FC Museum and FC Porto Museum Jahangir Selimkhanov 188

42 Yaroslavl Art Museum Michael Ryan 192

43 Mémorial ACTe, Caribbean Centre of Expressions and Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery Jette Sandahl 196

44 Museum of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin Jahangir Selimkhanov 200

45 The Old Town Museum Jouetta van der Ploeg 204

46 Museum of Confluences Karmele Barandiarau 208

47 Silesian Museum Marlen Mouliou 212

48 Marubi National Museum of Photography Marlen Mouliou 216

49 War Childhood Museum Marlen Mouliou 220

50 Rijksmuseum Boerhaave Barbara Kirshenhlatt-Gimblett 224

Part 3 European Museum of the Year Awards 1977-2019 229

List of Contributors 247

Index 253