Publisher Description

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.

Author Biography

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

Introduction Museum Portraits: 1. Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Ironbridge 2. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk 3. Catharine Convent State Museum, Utrecht 4. Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, Nafplion 5. Museum of Music, Stockholm 6. Museum of Farming & Crafts of Calabria, Monterosso, Calabria 7. Quarry Bank Mill, Styal 8. Heureka - the Finnish Science Centre, Wantaa 9. Leventis Municipal Museum, Nicosia 10. Vasa Museum, Stockholm 11. Alta Museum, Alta 12. Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest 13. National Conservation Centre, National Museums and Galleries of Merseyside, Liverpool 14. Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Siberia 15. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao 16. In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper 17. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin 18. The British Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 19. MARQ, Archaeological Museum of Alicante, Alicante 20. La Piscine, Roubaix 21. Netherlands Open-Air Museum, Arnhem 22. German Emigration Museum, Bremerhaven 23. Museum of Portimao 24. Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb 25. Tampere 1918: Museum of the Finnish Civil War 26 Madinat al-Zahra Museum, Cordoba 27. Glasnevin Cemetery Museum, Dublin 28. Archaeological Museum, Ioaninina 29. Museum of Liverpool, Liverpool 30. National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam 31. Museum of Innocence, Istanbul 32. Baksi Museum, Bayburt 33. Zanis Lipke Memorial, Riga 34. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 35. MuCEM - Musée des Civilizations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseilles 36. The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva 37. The Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth 38. Sasso San Gottardo Museum 39. European Solidarity Centre, Gdansk 40. Odderøya Museum Harbour, Kristiansand 41. Benfica FC Museum and FC Porto Museum 42. Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl 43. Mémorial ACTe, Caribbean Centre of Expressions and Memory of the Slave Trade and Slavery, Guadeloupe 44. Museum of the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg 45. The Old Town Museum, Aarhus 46. Museum of Confluences, Lyon 47. Siliesian Museum, Katowice 48. Marubi National Museum of Photography, Shkodra 49. War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo 50. Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden

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