Open AccessBorn to be OPTI. A new model for participatory museum management
Author(s) -
Lorena Sancho Queroi,
Kalle Kallio,
Linda Hein
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
nordisk museologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2002-0503
pISSN - 1103-8152
DOI - 10.5617/nm.6350
Subject(s) - citizen journalism , citizenship , face (sociological concept) , participatory management , sociology , field (mathematics) , knowledge management , key (lock) , public relations , political science , engineering ethics , management , engineering , social science , computer science , politics , mathematics , computer security , pure mathematics , law , economics
Society in the Museum (SoMus) is a research project in the field of sociomuseology where culture is viewed as an essential axis of developmental processes and museums as key tools for the exercise of cultural citizenship. The project intends to identify, analyse, systematize and disclose some of the most interesting emerging models of participatory management underway in four European museums. In this article we present the anatomy, the strategy and the challenges of one of the Nordic partners, the Finnish Labour Museum, and its current management tool, the OPTI Participatory Management Model. The model has been adapted from the business world to serve as a critical museological tool and to enhance participation in cultural institutions. It is a response to the paradigmatic transition that museums face when actively engaging in a participative culture.