Your Own Little Museum
03/06/10 Juha van 't Zelfde
Inspired by the computer game Football Manager, in which you are the trainer of a top football club, Juha van ’t Zelfde dreams of the game Museum Manager, in which you get to run a top museum.
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18/06/08 Olav Velthuis
In the Netherlands, most museums are almost entirely financed by government subsidies. Nonetheless, the influence of private individuals on the policies of these public institutes is gradually increasing. It is a trial-and-error effort, as the recent history of the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum demonstrates.
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20/02/07 Jorinde Seijdel
A museum potentially has the possibility and the means to be a place of critical comparison and discourse, but apparently not in the Netherlands, where museums are in the thrall of an all-consuming market mentality. Take the recent policy statement of the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum. Instead of stepping back from gratuitous conformity to market forces, the museum is following with narry a whisper, with the top of the international museum hierarchy as their ultimate objective. Fundamental changes in society are meanwhile ignored.
There is a greater need than ever for a public debate on the function that the museum should fulfil in Spanish society today.
Both left and right have acted cursorily with regard to museum and cultural institutions policy ever since the restoration of democracy in 1975.
As long as Spain remains a banana democracy, there is not much point in talking about museum policy.
