Our Museum. Studying museum communication for citizen engegement

Abstract

Our Museum was initiated in 2016. It is a five-year Danish national research and development programme comprising seven university departments at five universities and eight museum partners. The project aims to facilitate new forms of citizen engagement and inclusion by developing and studying how museums communicate with audiences in innovative ways. In this text the background, aims, hypothesis and organization are presented.

Udstillingsdrevet indsamling af møbler på Trapholt

“…Der savnes analyser af proces og virkning for samlingen, jaevnfør diskussioner afledt af paradigmeskiftet om fortsat fokus på genstandspleje og bevaring (eksempelvis Appleton 2007, Moore 1997, Floris & Vasström 1999 overfor det aendrede fokus til publikumspleje og demokratisering (eksempelvis Andreasen & Larsen 2005, Fleming 1996, Malpas 2008). I diskussionen af en fremtidig indsamlingsstrategi baseret på udstilling er jeg blandt andre inspireret af Drotner, Eriksen og Knell og deres perspektiver på åbenhed og borgerinddragelse i indsamling-og udstillingssammenhaeng (Drotner 2017, Eriksen 2009, Knell 2004a.…”

“…I disse projekter var der tale om skabelse af et faelles kunstvaerk, som sidenhen blev udstillet. I Vores Museums program og andre artikler er det udadrettede fokus mod borgere og publikum fortrinsvis centreret om udvikling og formidling i relation til udstillinger (eksempelvis Drotner 2017, Holdgaard & Stuedahl 2021, Simon 2010. Jeg foreslår at udvide denne tilgang til også at omfatte indsamling og samlingsforskning, og at indtaenke borgerne og publikum som en aktiv og integreret ressource.…”

Museums and museology in Denmark in the twenty-first century

“…Courses were offered to curatorial staff but also to the other employees selling tickets, outputting communication, designing exhibitions and so on but the course offerings gradually changed to many smaller courses answering to different demands among the museum employees, thus no longer mixing the staff as had happened at research project in Danish history -Our Museum -which is co-funded by the universities and two private foundations and runs from 2016 to 2020 (Drotner 2017). This project is exemplary for the way museology has developed in the twenty-first century in Denmark.…”