Museality at breakfast : the concept of museality in contemporary museological discourse

Vol.4,No.2(2015)

Peter van Mensch

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/134743

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Abstract
The concept of museality in contemporary museological discourse After a brief reference to the Stránský-Schreiner controversy of 1983, the paper will focus on the concept of significance as published by the Australian Heritage Collections Council in 2001, trying to answer the question: to what extend does this approach "solve" the Stránský-Schreiner controversy? Via a brief discussion of valuation methods in the sphere of landscape preservation as developed during the 1990s in the United Kingdom, the paper will propose a recent Dutch method of cultural value assessment, published by the Cultural Heritage Agency in 2013, as useful collection management tool, implementing Stránský's concept of museality from an integrated and interdisciplinary perspective.

Keywords:
theory of museology; contemporary museological discourse; concept of museality; methods of cultural value assessment; landscape preservation

Pages:
14–19
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