Olinsson, Sascha Bjarnø;
(2023)
A Museology for Open-Air Museums.
Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
, 21
(1)
10.5334/jcms.223.
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Abstract
This paper aims to assess the mechanisms of the Open-Air museum heritage interpretation approach in an attempt to establish a museology definition for the Open-Air museum concept, which can help us to deconstruct the components that make the model distinct and sustainable. This will be achieved by identifying the underlying principles of the Open-Air museum approach, as well as assessing the particular resources associated with the approach. The objective is to establish what a generally applicable Open-Air museum approach would look like and assess how the fundamentals of this approach can impact on sustainable economic development in Open-Air museums as well as other heritage settings. The study has performed an exhaustive literature review on Open-Air museums, and the review findings are corroborated with data from a 2018 survey on Danish and English Open-Air museums and in-depth interviews with management staff from two leading Open-Air museums in both countries. The study demonstrates that Open-Air museums rely heavily on intangible heritage resources to build their mediation approach and that their museology approach has been successful to the extent of developing a successful pedagogical tool that is furthermore a sustainable cultural “product”.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A Museology for Open-Air Museums |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5334/jcms.223 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jcms.223 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Open-Air museum museology; heritage resource management; sustainable development; intangible heritage; museum economy; museum learning practices |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184663 |
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