Appropriate museology and the “new museum ethics”. Honoring diversity

Authors

  • Christina Kreps

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.3044

Keywords:

appropriate museology, museum ethics, indigenous and alternative museologies, inclusion, shared guardianship, source and indigenous com- munities, Native American museums, Indonesia, Canada

Abstract

This article focuses on what I see as two key movements in the museum world today: the emergence and adoption of a “new museum ethics,” and appropriate museology. I describe how these movements inform one another in both theory and practice; and how they manifest a growing respect for diversity – diversity in the ways different communities make sense of the museum as well as the objects that end up in museums, and diversity in actual practice. 

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