MORAL LESSONS AND REFORMING AGENDAS: History museums, science museums, contentious topics and contemporary societies

Fiona Cameron

doi:10.4324/9780203932643-36

MORAL LESSONS AND REFORMING AGENDAS: History museums, science museums, contentious topics and contemporary societies

Fiona Cameron

Institute for Culture & Society

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Abstract

Contemporary discourse casts museums as socially responsible (Janes and Conaty 2005), as organisations with the capacity to sustain societal health (Anderson 2005; Sutter and Worts 2005: 132) and improve the human condition. Similarly, the American Association of Museums 2002 study, Mastering Civic Engagement, presents museums as sites that can exert greater influence in society, as places where values are generated and as incubators for change (American Association of Museums 2002: 9). Interestingly, the desire to improve the human condition, to act as sites for the formation of values and incubators for change, appears reminiscent of the older and now unacceptable moralising and reforming treatise.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Museum Revolutions
Subtitle of host publication	How Museums Change and are Changed
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Pages	330-342
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781134066261
ISBN (Print)	0415444667, 9780415444668
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203932643-36
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2007

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© 2007 Simon Knell, Suzanne MacLeod and Sheila Watson for editorial matter and selection; individual contributions, the contributors.

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