Culture for Development Directory

African museums on a meet-the-people mission

Guttman, Cynthia | 2000
  • Author(s): Guttman, Cynthia
  • Publisher: United nations educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO)
  • Pages: 40--42
  • Keywords: museums, exhibitions, cultural heritage, community participation, botswana, benin, nigeria, south africa, zimbabwe, africa
Article about new ways African museums take to counter act low visitor attendance. They are breaking out of their rigid colonial moulds and are courting local communities. Examples from Botswana, Benin, Nigeria, South-Africa and Zimbabwe.

From imperial museum to communication centre? : on the new role of the museum as interface between science and non-Western societies : a project

Guzy, Lidia and Hatoum, Rainer and Kamel, Susan | cop. 2007-
  • Author(s): Guzy, Lidia and Hatoum, Rainer and Kamel, Susan
  • Publisher: Freie Universitنt Berlin. Institut für Religionswissenschaft
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museums, colonial history, cultural development, cultural participation
This project deals with the new role of museums in non-Western cultures. We assume that globalisation has enormously enhanced the artistic and cultural expressions of non-Western societies in the direction of \"retraditionalisation\".

Creativity in museums

Haas, Claudia and Menasse, Elisabeth | 2007
  • Author(s): Haas, Claudia and Menasse, Elisabeth
  • Publisher: Lord cultural resources etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museology, development planning, organizational change
Creativity is important in museums, but it is not enough. This presentation discusses innovation; why it is needed, how to promote it within an organization and what the process is to achieve it.

The influence of culture on economic development in Solomon Islands : a political-economy perspective

Haque, Tobias A. | 2012
  • Author(s): Haque, Tobias A.
  • Publisher: Australian national university (ANU)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: economic development, governance, private sector, cultural aspects, developing island countries, solomon islands
This paper presents a political-economy critique of culturally based explanations for uneven development progress in Solomon Islands.

Management practices in two of the oldest museum in Malaysia

Hasan, Rahah Hj. | 2006]
  • Author(s): Hasan, Rahah Hj.
  • Publisher: International council of museums (ICOM)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museums, governance, local government, malaysia
This paper looks into the mood and structures of governance of the Sarawak Museum and the Selangor Museum. These museums have been restructured by the local government, who have the full authority of the direction and objectives of the museum function and activities.
 

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