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Museums and the ‘new museology’: theory, practice and organisational change
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The widening of roles and expectations within cultural policy discourses has been a challenge to museum workers throughout Great Britain. There has been an expectation that museums are changing from an ‘old’ to a ‘new museology’ that has shaped museum functions and roles. This paper outlines the limitations of this perceived transition as museum services confront multiple exogenous and endogenous expectations, opportunities, pressures and threats. Findings from 23 publically funded museum services across England, Scotland and Wales are presented to explore the roles of professional and hierarchical differentiation, and how there were organisational and managerial limitations to the practical application of the ‘new museology’. The ambiguity surrounding policy, roles and practice also highlighted that museum workers were key agents in interpreting, using and understanding wide-ranging policy expectations. The practical implementation of the ‘new museology’ is linked to the values held by museum workers themselves and how they relate it to their activities at the ground level.
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“The latter staff groups tend not to be seen as being able to provide any particular knowledge or experience to considerations of how museums could or should function, with these being the preserve of traditional, functionally-based management groupings within the sector.”
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“There did not appear to be a distinction between the professional functions of museum workers and a collegial attitude that has developed from changes to patterns of internal management and organisation -at least in some of the museum services.”
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“The ambiguity surrounding policy, roles and practice also highlighted that museum workers were key agents in interpreting, using and understanding wide-ranging policy expectations.”
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“There is still a major polarisation between professional and 'other' -clerical, manual and administrative -staff within the sector.”
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“Findings from 23 publicallyfunded museum services across England, Scotland and Wales are presented to explore the roles of professional and hierarchical differentiation, and how there were organisational and managerial limitations to the practical application of the 'new museology'.”
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“The role of professional differentiation is first explored showing that there is often still a perceived, and real, polarisation of factions within museum services.”
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“The language and discourses that relate to the 'new museology' have been used as opportunities for workers to pursue their own discretion in implementing activities at the ground level.”
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“The managers that were critically discussed were often seen as vague and nameless entities higher up the managerial hierarchy, or even outside of the museum service altogether.”
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“In many of the services studied there was a sense that the role of curators had been”
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“It is important to note, however, that workers were aware of the dichotomy between 'intrinsic' activities within the museum and other expectations as demonstrated, for example, by the 'old school' and 'new school' labels placed on workers.”
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“The impact of a range of intervening variables in affecting how change is managed and undertaken demonstrates the partial nature of reform and the reasons why organisational change has been limited.”
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“Four overriding themes emerged from a cross-examination of the data and include:”
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“Instead, it provides a synoptic overview of factors internal to the museums sector as a whole that have affected the extent to which change has occurred, and identifies the manner in which they have contributed to the partial and inconsistent take-up of the principles of the 'new museology' within Great Britain.”
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“Overall, key discourses related to the 'new museology' were evident, but there were also important restraints on the practical implementation of activities relating to the 'new museology' throughout the services studied.”
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“The hierarchical differentiations within the services are then outlined, which paints a complex picture of working relationships, especially between managerial and collections-based roles.”
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“This division could also be seen as a source of friction and division in workers' understandings of museum functions, with the evidence suggesting that the process of polarisation was sometimes”
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“Many museum workers tried to develop a counter-narrative through employing professional discourses on what is involved in undertaking their role, with this being part of an attempt to control their functions.”
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“However, these were rare, and many of the museums visited did not have a formal, user-engagement strategy beyond comments books and cards or the occasional visitor survey (because of being expensive to run)”
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“Different factions were clearly based on functional differentiation and often it was”
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“Museum workers often discussed the importance of user involvement, but there were few specific examples of where user feedback had any impact on their day-to-day activities.”
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“Overall, there was evidence of polarisation between staff groups, with there being some engagement with ideas associated with the 'new museology', but with this being limited in practice, particularly where the”
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“Workers are influenced by high-level policy rhetoric, but because of the ambiguity of key concepts there are multiple interpretations at ground level.”
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“One outreach worker described this polarisation as the 'new school' and the 'old school' groups within their museum --seeing museum workers within their service to be clearly related to these polarised 'schools'.The 'new school' included outreach, learning and”
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“This is often helped by the low level of monitoring at the ground level of museums and the lack of detailed and specific policy guidance that is available to museum staff (McCall 2012).”
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“Many did not necessarily see themselves as being in conflict with other workers' professional values, but were more concerned with letting these professional values determine what actually took place inside the museum (often leading to conflict with demands from elsewhere within the system).”
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“This affected the traditional roles of curators --first, by directly increasing the administration and management element of the job and second, by often limiting curators to collections care only as wider exhibition planning and design had been placed within the remit of other roles.”
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“Curatorial roles had been pushed down the hierarchy and more managerial layers had often been placed between curators and highlevel decision makers.”
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“Many museum staff who worked closely with collections reported a loss of control over museum function and direction, although other staff did not necessarily share this perception.”
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“In some cases, users were referred to in derogatory terms, making what were perceived to be unrealistic demands and expecting involvement in activities that were held to be the preserve of professionals and managers alone.”
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“Our findings show that these polarisations do exist within museums but they are not particularly fixed.”
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“The idea of 'bureau-professionalism' seems to reflect the description that workers shared about themselves throughout the museum services studied.”
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“There has been some progress with regard to activities around the 'new museology', but a full transition into this ideology has not been achieved by any museum service in this study.”
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“The 'traditional' roles of museum workers have been perceived to be going through some transition.”
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“The 'new museology' -and a great deal of museological literature -assumes that as a result of this rethinking of the purposes of museums, real change has occurred in both the understanding of museum functions and the activities that museums undertake.”
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“Qualitative, empirical research is a valid and widely used scientific method and, although it cannot be used in the present case to derive statistical generalisations, it has provided a rich and indepth picture of the limitations to the effective implementation of the 'new museology'.”
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“The current paper is not based on a statistically-representative sample of museums and museum services in the UK, and is not intended to provide a definitive statement about the precise extent to which the 'new museology' is embedded in individual cases or how individual museums are living up to the principles enshrined within the approach.”
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“Museum workers are being expected to be all things to all people, with museums and museum staff operating within the multiple demands and pressures that are produced from a variety of policy documents and expectations.”
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“McCall (2012) has shown that the idea of policy can bring about a mix of negative emotional reactions from some workers and can have a fundamental role in utilising policy and manipulating the language around museum activities to meet their own ends.”
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“This has obvious constraints and can often backfire on museum services (such as being tied to short-term and disappearing funding streams), but it is an example of museum workers being key agents in utilising policy”
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“Policy makers (McCall 2010) have also viewed museums as 'generators of well-being' and, more recently in Britain, linked them to the idea of 'the Big Society' V .”
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“Evans (2011) also discusses this when studying street-level workers and observed that managers had their own set of professional standards and values that were often sympathetic to ground-level workers.”
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“Therefore, although policy ambiguity can lead to multiple expectations, the space offered by wide (and often unknown) policy definitions can give ground-level workers the room to pursue their own activities in creative ways.”
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“The 'new museology' encompasses wide and ambiguous discourses such as 'empowerment' and 'social inclusion' (Harrison 1993).”
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“He viewed the manager/worker relationship as generally conflictual, with workers in a continuous fight over power and resources.”
§ Museums and the 'New Museology': Theory, Practice and Organizational change > Hierarchical differentiation
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“Criticism of Lipsky (2010) includes the assertion that managerial relationships are not always conflictual.”
§ Museums and the 'New Museology': Theory, Practice and Organizational change > Hierarchical differentiation
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“Therefore, power can be seen as being negotiated between different levels of the hierarchy, with control of policy implementation being a vital resource in this process.”
§ Museums and the 'New Museology': Theory, Practice and Organizational change > Hierarchical differentiation
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“This is a result of multiple causal factors that extend far beyond the forms of professional control of the museums sector and museums policy that the 'new museology' literature is based on.”
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“Staff are both managed within, and are the managers of public organisations, leading to a shift from a 'professional' to a 'semiprofessional' status (Abbot and Meerabeau 1998, 2).”
§ Museums and the 'New Museology': Theory, Practice and Organizational change > RESEARCHER: How do you negotiate that?
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- Not matchedcites Abbot and Meerabeau 1998, 2
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“Worker discretion can lead to other implications such as a diverse service for different users, but in a service with many exogenous and endogenous pressures having a uniform service would be impossible from the outset.”
§ Museums and the 'New Museology': Theory, Practice and Organizational change > "I consider myself very much at the chalk-face of implementing things but I have to say that I haven't read a strategy document on what I do… I think it comes naturally…
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The paper relies on this without support.
The factors identified from the 23 museum services are representative of factors internal to the museums sector as a whole in Great Britain.
“Instead, it provides a synoptic overview of factors internal to the museums sector as a whole that have affected the extent to which change has occurred, and identifies the manner in which they have contributed to the partial and inconsistent take-up of the principles of the 'new museology' within Great Britain.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The principles underpinning the 'new museology' have a degree of universality that extends beyond the particular social, economic and political contexts in which it developed.
“While the 'new museology' itself developed within a particular set of social, economic and political contexts, the principles that underpin it have a degree of universality that extend beyond the particular.”
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Interview accounts of museum workers accurately reflect their practices, values and organisational relationships.
“Many workers who were interviewed gave examples of this.”
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Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ Museums and the 'New Museology': Theory, Practice and Organizational change > Introduction
“Duncan's (1995) analysis of some of the larger European museums highlighted that there had indeed been a change to public consumption within The Louvre and National Gallery of London.”
§ Museums and the 'New Museology': Theory, Practice and Organizational change > References
“6. Duncan, Carol. 2004. Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums. London: Routledge.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- McCall, V., & Gray, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Stirling (GB)
- University of Warwick (GB)
- Corresponding author
- McCall, Vikki
- ORCID
- McCall, Vikki
- Venue
- Museum Management and Curatorship
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-12-24
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 19-35
- ISSN
- 0964-7775 (ISSN-L)
- 1872-9185
- OpenAlex
- W2132760845
- Cited by
- 255
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 27 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 175.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- public-domain
- Locations
- Museum Management and Curatorship (publishedVersion)
- Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) (acceptedVersion)
- Stirling Online Research Repository (University of Stirling) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Libraries and Information Services
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Keywords
- new museology, role of museums, cultural policy, public museums, museum staff, organizational change, museum management, professional differentiation, hierarchical differentiation, policy implementation, museum values, Great Britain
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