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“Ferry Me O’er”: Musing on the Future of Museum Culture
Author(s) -
Stimler Neal
Publication year - 2010
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.2151-6952.2010.00035.x
Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , shore , political science , environmental ethics , media studies , art , sociology , history , social science , biology , fishery , philosophy
Museum professionals face unprecedented challenges in the digital world of the twenty‐first century. How will we meet those challenges and who will lead us to the new shore of our future? We need museum professionals who act as ferrymen, guiding the museum community and its constituents through the troubled waters of our age to cultural reform that leads us to the essential purpose of art: love.