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dc.contributor.editorBrown, Karen Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-24T09:30:01Z
dc.date.available2019-12-24T09:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationBrown , K E (Guest ed.) 2019 , ' Museums and local development : an introduction to museums, sustainability and well-being ' , Museum International , vol. 71 , no. 3-4 , pp. 1-3 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13500775.2019.1702257en
dc.identifier.issn1350-0775
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 263920439
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: a68a0131-2e2d-4d43-a20a-ee45479b2e49
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8681-4966/work/66591946
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000505202300001
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85076919852
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/19200
dc.description.abstractThe ability to ‘Think global, act local’ (Patrick Geddes) has never been more pressing for museum and heritage professionals. In recent years, museums, natural and cultural heritage sites and their communities around the world have been acutely affected by natural disasters, migration, conflict, war, lack of security, youth unemployment and related societal and environmental challenges. The situation is exacerbated in low- to middle-income countries where maintaining equilibrium, well-being, and community resilience is an urgent necessity in the face of global imbalances and rapid change, and for communities in remote rural and island locations, the challenges of globalisation are intensified by socio-political and environmental instability, lack of access to resources, depopulation and unethical development. Viewed in this context, museums and heritage organisations bear a huge responsibility for the communities they serve in the 21st century. Studies have shown that museums are among the most trusted public institutions around the globe (Museums Association 2013; Aksoy, in Report on Policy Round Table 2019, p. 5), and they therefore have an ethical obligation to support social cohesion and development, as well as to maintain traditional standards in collections care and management. As a result, museum and heritage professionals have increasingly found themselves asking: ‘what are museums for?’ If museums in the 21st century are coming to be understood as ‘polyphonic spaces’ concerned with ‘planetary well-being’ (ICOM website, ‘Museum Definition’ page), then in addition to paying attention to traditional concerns, museology as a discipline needs to keep abreast of debates in global challenges and sustainable development.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMuseum Internationalen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectMuseumsen
dc.subjectDevelopmenten
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.subjectCommunityen
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectWell-beingen
dc.subjectAM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)en
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectSDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growthen
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.subject.lccAMen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.titleMuseums and local development : an introduction to museums, sustainability and well-beingen
dc.typeJournal itemen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Commissionen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Museums, Galleries and Collections Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Art Historyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13500775.2019.1702257
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumber693669en


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