Open Access‘CULTURAL SHOCK’: MUSEUMS’ ACTIVITY DURING THE PANDEMIC
Author(s) -
Mateusz Maria Bieczyński
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
muzealnictwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2391-4815
pISSN - 0464-1086
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0014.8573
Subject(s) - pandemic , museology , covid-19 , public relations , political science , cultural institution , statutory law , business , sociology , history , media studies , law , medicine , archaeology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The questions related to museums’ operationsworldwide in 2020, namely during the so-called enforcedquarantine resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, are tackled.The actions of museums and other cultural institutions inreaction to the unexpected world pandemic and henceforthderived sanitary restrictions aborting the regular operationsof museum as well as the fulfilment of their statutory missionare discussed. Statistical data and conditionings of museums’activities in different countries are analysed. Furthermore, themajor documents issued by organizations such as UNESCO orICOM are presented and briefly characterized. Additionally, thefocus is put on the analysis of cultural policies with museologyin mind proposed domestically and internationally, and aimingat providing institutional and financial support to museums’operations. Moreover, questions are posed related to thepossible direction of changes in museology caused by thepandemic. A subjective selection of the most interesting onlineevents of the first pandemic wave has been presented. Also,an attempt has been made to diagnose the future of exhibitingin the digital era.