Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations by Stephen E. Weil

Author:Stephen E. Weil [Weil, Stephen E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-935623-66-3
Publisher: Smithsonian
Published: 2014-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

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In the end, of course, whether the claim of American museum workers to be professionals will be honored by anyone but themselves must depend not upon their own image of themselves but upon the public’s. Is the work they do perceived to be unique? Are they considered competent to be entrusted with the execution of tasks that the public thinks important? Addressing these questions nearly a generation ago, G. Ellis Burcaw unhappily observed:

The image of the museum in America is that anyone who has nothing better to do can manage the community museum, and that (except for the jobs that obviously require special skills and knowledge, such as taxidermy or the restoration of paintings) practically anyone can be used to staff practically any museum.16

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