Open AccessSUPERVISION OF MUSEUM ACTIVITY
Author(s) -
Rafał Golat
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 - 10.5604/01.3001.0015.2413
Subject(s) - statutory law , context (archaeology) , meaning (existential) , perspective (graphical) , public relations , normative , political science , process (computing) , cultural heritage , business , history , law , art , psychology , visual arts , archaeology , computer science , psychotherapist , operating system
Supervision of museums should be perceivedtaking into account both specific regulations: addresseddirectly to museums, particularly in the Act on Museums,as well as general regulations assuming supervisionmechanisms in different respects, e.g., construction processor HR. This complex perspective: systemic and normative,is essential not only with respect to the supervision ina narrow basic meaning of the term, associated in thefirst place with an inspection of the supervised entityand application of respective executive actions, e.g.,undertaken in the form of administrative decisions, butalso the supervision in a broader perspective, understoodas a whole range of support provided to a museum,including issuing recommendations, evaluations, andopinions important for its operation.In the context of ‘external’ supervision implemented byappropriate organs and entities, the following are of basicimportance: the museum’s organiser (founder) supervision,constituting one of the organiser’s basic statutory responsibilities,as well as the supervision of the minister responsiblefor culture and preservation of national heritage, with respectto e.g., the preservation and care of historic monumentsand museum operations; additionally, it is the matterof conservation supervision performed by VoivodeshipConservators of Historic Monuments as organs specialized inthe preservation and care of historic monuments, the latterconstituting, e.g., museum collections.As for the ‘internal’ supervision aspects, the role of museumcouncils, obligatory in public museums (state ones ororganised by local governments), needs to be emphasized.Their statutory responsibility is to e.g., supervise how museumsfulfil their responsibilities with respect to the collectionand the public, in particular how they fulfil the goals asspecified in Art.1 of the Act on Museums.The questions of supervision are also important fornon-public museums (their founders) which in the eventof violating either the Act’s provisions or their own charterhave to be prepared that supervisory activities mightbe applied to them, up to the ban on their further operations.