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Fifty Museum Years, and Then Some
Author(s) -
Freudenheim Tom L.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.2007.tb00249.x
Subject(s) - pleasure , amenity , power (physics) , politics , aesthetics , art , history , sociology , art history , political science , law , psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
The money worm has burrowed into museum foundations in the last five decades, weakening structures already challenged by power politics, relevancy issues, and contemporary anxieties. Half a century ago, however, museums were an amenity, a benign pleasure—and free! Here is a personal recollection of a collective journey, in which progress might best be measured by what can't be measured.