Museums need to find answers to what it means to be part of a participative culture, a culture in which members believe that their contributions matter and feel some degree of social connection with one another. In documenting contemporary culture, participative projects add new perspectives to collections. At the same time they provide participants with a better understanding of the specificity of museum work. This better understanding fosters people’s sense of ownership in a museum. Yet, the participative method of collecting is not uncontested. It may question the autonomy and authority of the museum professional, involving a redefinition of the professional as an external expert acknowledging the expert knowledge of the individual and the community itself.
INHALT
Léontine Meijer-van Mensch and Peter van Mensch: Participative strategies in collecting the present | Introduction
REFLECTIONS ON METHODS OF PARTICIPATION
Dennis Herrmann and Jonas Koch: Challenges, chances and changes | Theoretical and practical reasons for on- and offline participation in museums
Kathrina Dankl and Tena Mimica: Collecting the present by exploring Doing Kinship with Pictures and Objects
Renée Kistemaker: Participative strategies in the project Entrepreneurial Cultures in European Cities | On the way to integrated museums?
Zvjezdana Antoš and Annemarie de Wildt: The museum goes shopping | Collecting entrepreneurs – a comparison between city and ethnographic museums
(RE)DEFINING THE MUSEUM WITH PARTICIPATION
Zelda Baveystock: The secrets of our success | Synthesising audience development with collections at the Museum of Liverpool
Angela Jannelli: Frankfurt Now! and the City Lab | Two participatory exhibition formats of the historisches museum frankfurt
Dorota Kawecka and Aleksandra Janus: What to take and how to share? | Challenges for establishing a new Theatre Museum in Warsaw
PERCEPTIONS OF COMMUNITY
Thomas Michael Walle: Participation and othering in documenting the present
Christine Fredriksen: Participative strategies and the maritime cultural heritage
CHALLENGING AUTHORITY AND CONTROL
Arjen Kok and Pina Cardia: Involving lay stakeholders in expert cultural value assessment
Tanja Roženbergar: Don’t throw pots away
Markus Walz: The selection of cultural assets between research and plebiscite Five museological points dealing with »collecting 2.0«