What difference do museums make? Producing evidence on the impact of museums

Selwood, Sara

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“…The RitR report, published by the non-departmental public body Resource, subsequently renamed the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), was well received by the Labour Government, not least because it resonated closely with governmental agendas and objectives (Hooper-Greenhill, 2007;Lawley, 2003;Selwood, 2002). Many of the taskforce's recommendations were enacted when the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) tasked MLA to develop a programme to implement ideas from the report, with DCMS and the then Department for Education and Schools (DfES) committing almost £300 million of funding to the programme between (DCMS, 2007.…”

Section: Ritr and Museum Spatialisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The programme sparked critical commentary, with concerns expressed about its initial vision, degree of implementation, organisation, impacts on included and excluded museums, and significance in terms of governmental relations with museums and culture (Everitt, 2009;Flude, 2002;Heal, 2002;Heywood, 2002;Selwood, 2002). The latter concerns linked to a series of debates about the agency, instrumentalisation, governmentality and commodification of museums and culture (Belfiore, 2002;Gray, 2008;Holden, 2004Holden, , 2006Hooper-Greenhill et al, 2009;Levitt, 2008;Newman & McLean, 2004b;O'Neill, 2008).…”

Section: Ritr and Museum Spatialisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Foucault and museum geographies: a case study of the English ‘Renaissance in the Regions’

Phillips

Woodham

Hooper‐Greenhill

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper explores the subject of museum geographies, focusing particularly on the development of museum policies in a changing political context. The empirical focus is the emergence and transformation of the museum programme Renaissance in the Region, which is linked to the concepts of primary, secondary and tertiary spatialisations presented by Michel Foucault. The paper discusses the development of the programme and how it transformed aspects of the primary, secondary and tertiary spatialisations of museums in England, before focusing attention on the geography of school visits to museums. The results of two extensive studies of school visits to museums in the programme suggest that large numbers of visits come from schools located in areas with high indices of multiple deprivation and income deprivation affecting children. It is argued that this social geography reflects the tertiary spatialisation of museums linked to their emergence in areas of past industrial development, although practices linked to reconfigurations of the primary and secondary spatialisation as part of the Renaissance in the Regions programme may also have played some role. The paper concludes by discussing recent changes in government policy and the degree to which the 'New Renaissance' policy may signify reductions in the social reach of museums into areas of social deprivation and exclusion.Keywords: museum geographies; Foucault; spatialisations; Renaissance in the Regions; social inclusion; deprivation Foucault et les géographies du musée: cas d'étude de la « Renaissance dans les régions » anglaise Cet article explore le sujet des géographies du musée, en mettant particulièrement l'accent sur le développement des politiques de musée dans un contexte politique changeant. L'accent empirique est mis sur l'émergence et la transformation du programme de musée Renaissance dans la Région, qui est lié aux concepts de spatialisations primaire, secondaire et tertiaire, présentés par Michel Foucault. Cet article discute du développement du programme et de la fac on dont il a transformé les aspects de spatialisation primaire, secondaire et tertiaire de musées en Angleterre, avant de se concentrer sur la géographie de visites scolaires dans les musées. Les résultats de deux études importantes de visites scolaires de musées dans le programme suggèrent que de grands nombres de visites viennent d'écoles situées dans des zones aux indices de privations et de manque de revenus élevés affectant les enfants. Il est *Corresponding author. Email: mpp2@le.ac.uk Social & Cultural Geography, 2015 Vol. 16, No. 7, 730-763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2015 argué que cette géographie sociale reflète la spatialisation tertiaire des musées liée à leur émergence dans les secteurs d'ancien développement industriel, bien que les pratiques liées aux reconfiguations de spatialisation primaire et secondaire en tant que programme de Renaissance des Régions aient aussi pu jouer un certain rôle. L'article conclut en discutant des changements récents en politique...

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Section: Ritr and Museum Spatialisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ritr and Museum Spatialisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Foucault and museum geographies: a case study of the English ‘Renaissance in the Regions’

Phillips

Woodham

Hooper‐Greenhill

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Paul Virilio has argued that Fukayama is right: 'it is the end of history and the start of another history, that of events, of the live' [34]. Nowadays an event is only verified by having become spectacle and is severed from the context from which it takes meaning.…”

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The Museums' future

Steyn

2006

Futures

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“…In fact, DCMS itself has recently Extant evidence is simply not sufficient to justify public expenditure in the arts solelyor mainly -on the grounds of their impacts in the social and economic sphere, and methodologies on which the evidence collection is based are rather dubious. Criticism has been moved against methods for evaluating the social impacts of arts programmes, and the quality of the 'evidence' produced has been criticized for being anecdotal and unsupported by adequate systems of data collection (with the result of making comparisons over time impossible) (Belfiore 2002;Merli 2002, Selwood 2002a). Similar arguments have been made against the alleged economic impacts of the creative sector (Hansen 1995;van Puffelen 1996, Belfiore 2003 James Heartfield, in a pamphlet meaningfully entitled Great Expectations: The Creative Industries in the New Economy, argues that the creative industries are far from being the amazingly productive sector that they are claimed to be in the government's official rhetoric.…”

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confidence: 99%

Auditing culture

Belfiore¹

2004

International Journal of Cultural Policy

185

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This paper explores the effects of the spread of the principles and practices of the New Public Management (NPM) on the subsidized cultural sector and on cultural policymaking in Britain. In particular, changes in the style of public administration that can be ascribed to the NPM will be shown to provide a useful framework to make sense of what has been felt as an 'instrumental turn' in British policies for culture between the early 1980s and the present day.The current New Labour government, as well as the arm length's bodies that distribute public funds for the cultural sector in Britain, are showing an increasing tendency to justify public spending on the arts on the basis of instrumental notions of the arts and culture. In the context of what have been defined as 'instrumental cultural policies', the arts are subsidised in so far as they represent a means to an end rather than an end in itself. In this perspective, the emphasis placed on the potential of the arts to help tackle social exclusion and the role of the cultural sector in place marketing and local economic development are typical examples of current trends in British cultural policymaking. The central argument purported by this paper is that this instrumental emphasis in British cultural policy is closely linked to the changes in the style of public administration that have given rise to the NPM. These new developments have indeed put the publicly funded cultural sector under increasing pressure. In particular, it will be shown how the new stress on the measurement of the arts' impacts in clear and quantifiable ways -which characterizes today's 'audit society' -has proved a tough challenge for the sector and one that has not been successfully met. The paper will conclude by critically considering how the spread of the NPM has affected processes of  The author would like to thank Prof. Oliver Bennett and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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What difference do museums make? Producing evidence on the impact of museums

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Foucault and museum geographies: a case study of the English ‘Renaissance in the Regions’

Foucault and museum geographies: a case study of the English ‘Renaissance in the Regions’

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