{"title":"The myths of museology: on deconstructing, reconstructing, and redistributing","authors":"Bruno Brulon Soares","doi":"10.4000/iss.4044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.4044","url":null,"abstract":"Museology was invented as a way to look at the diversity of museums through a single “scientific” lens. Behind the assumption that museology could be a science – one that was in the foundation of this international committee (ICO-FOM) – there was the idea promoted by some of our founding figures that one single branch of knowledge could serve the study of the plurality of museums. A claim of universality, according to which “the embryonic nucleus of museology must have existed since a long time [ago]” (Sofka, 1987, p. 7) was a founding myth that may hide the fact that museology, as a body of mixed knowledge and methods, can be as diverse as the reality of the museum experience. Based on the recent debates proposed by ICOFOM on the decolonisation of the study of museums, in this synthesis I will suggest that in the process of defining itself as science , museology had to assume a universal and neutral point of view, consequently excluding other subaltern subjects and their situated knowledge (Haraway, 1988). Its core purpose was the production of one single conceptual basis with defined theoretical centres for the investigation of museums, both in theory and in practice. Decoloniality calls that universality into question. Looking at the basis of museum theory, I will stress that the decolonisation of museums and that of museology as a disciplinary field is dependent on a three-fold and interrelated process that encompasses deconstructing , reconstructing , and redistributing , necessarily in that order. The problem with today’s discourse on the decolonisation of museums is its restricted focus on the last part of this complex and difficult process, disregarding its more fundamental procedures.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129286105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prefacio. Descolonizar la museología: un debate en curso","authors":"Bruno Brulon Soares","doi":"10.4000/iss.3499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.3499","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129499096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonizing museum education","authors":"S. S. Chitima","doi":"10.4000/iss.3575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.3575","url":null,"abstract":"When Zimbabwe attained political independence in 1980 it was anticipated that national museums would decolonize all colonial epistemologies, taxonomies, iconography, and infrastructure. However, the pace of decolonizing colonial frameworks and operational culture in museums has been painfully slow. This study examined the effectiveness of colonial frameworks employed in museums, particularly the behaviorist educational philosophy in facilitating effective learning of curriculum content among the current primary school students in Zimbabwe. This study employed qualitative and hermeneutic research approaches. It is revealed that in the post-colonial period national museums in Zimbabwe continue to mimic the colonial behaviorist educational framework that is restrictive to effective learning hence creating a situation where students become epistemological slaves. So far very little has been done to refocus colonial permanent exhibitions, narratives and interpretations as well as methods of content delivery. It is concluded that there are few opportunities for school students to learn curriculum content. Thus, there is need to decolonize museum education service.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"07 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127162080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Muséologie, colonisations et domination","authors":"François Mairesse","doi":"10.4000/iss.3838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.3838","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127445979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metamuseology and InterMuseologies – the Kaingang people and their collections (São Paulo, Brazil)","authors":"M. X. Cury","doi":"10.4000/iss.3629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.3629","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the Metamuseology, this article explores the Kaingang collections gathered at the beginning of the 20th century during the colonization of the West of São Paulo. What determined the interpretation analyses made about these musealia items was the museality as part of the violent procedures applied to collect and gather collections of objects that witness a relationship full of conflict and the records loaded with past musealities that are included in the Museological Documentation. One element has key importance in the article, the participation of the Kaingang groups in the new contextualization and signification of the objects inherited from their ancestors and that they met at MAE-USP. To that end, we have chosen some museological objects and, resorting to InterMuseologies, we showed how musealization can be used to challenge the former musealities and to make new propositions while respecting the rights of indigenous people to musealization.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122207061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction. Décoloniser la muséologie ou « re-fonder la muséologie »","authors":"Y. Bergeron, Michèle Rivet","doi":"10.4000/iss.3503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.3503","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122271098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Repatriation, colonialism, and decolonization in China","authors":"Lin Li","doi":"10.4000/iss.3818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.3818","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128046813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Muséologie postcoloniale ou muséologie décoloniale ? Réflexion sur la porosité des concepts","authors":"Fabien Van Geert","doi":"10.4000/iss.3918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.3918","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125908349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Nails to Rails: A Report in the Practical Application of Theoretical Museology","authors":"V. Miller","doi":"10.4000/iss.3302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/iss.3302","url":null,"abstract":"Theoretical museology is the study of museums, including explorations of their history, role in society, and the activities they engage in for the benefit of the communities that they serve which include curating, public programming, education and preservation. This paper will examine the theoretical foundations and a practical application of museology at the Steelworks Center of the West in Pueblo, Colorado (USA). The aim is to stimulate critical thinking on the transfer and cross-cultural application of standard, professional museum models and methods. It will also examine how the Steelworks Center provides for a study of museology within the environment, particularly regarding the ways in which people learn. These will include the role of museum education as an alternative to the tradiPapers • From Nails to Rails [...] 108 tional methods of study, and also, museum education as a trainer for non-conformist thinking.","PeriodicalId":298869,"journal":{"name":"ICOFOM Study Series","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128844839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}