Screen LibraryA practical guide to museum ethics /
"With money increasingly difficult to raise, is a museum more likely to accede to potential funders' demands even when those demands might compromise the museum's integrity? When a museum is struggling with debilitating debt, should the sale of selected items from its collections and...
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"With money increasingly difficult to raise, is a museum more likely to accede to potential funders' demands even when those demands might compromise the museum's integrity? When a museum is struggling with debilitating debt, should the sale of selected items from its collections and the use of the resulting proceeds bring the museum into a more stable financial position? When a museum attempts to build its attendance and attract local visitors by crowdsourcing exhibitions, is it undermining its integrity? Ethical questions about museum activities are legion, yet they are usually only discus |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 229 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781442231634 1442231637 9781442231627 1442231629 |
| Index Number: | AM7 |
| CLC: | G26-05 |
| Call Number: | G26-05/Y475 |
| Contents: | Introduction and framework for approaching ethical problems -- Mission, principles and ethics -- Distinguishing ethical issues from operational and management problems -- The ethics of museum governance and leadership -- The ethics of acquiring and managing collections -- The ethics of caring for and conserving collections -- Ethical dilemmas of deaccessioning -- Ethical problems related to fundraising and other income producing activities -- Controversy and censorship -- Restitution, repatriation or retention? : the ethics of cultural heritage -- Museum visitors : ethical issues concerning |