Abstract
Sustainable development depends on measures taken by public and private organizations. Museums stand out among these organizations due to the controversies arising in connection with their role in society. Museums use resources in order to provide public goods and services, being budgetary subsidies their main sources of income. Unfortunately, those are limited and shrinking. Therefore, during the last years the need for sustainable development of museums was stressed. In order to operate, museums were forced to find ways of increasing their own income and keeping their costs under control. Thus museums have begun to use management strategies similar to those used by private companies, such as internationalisation. By analysing case studies in order to assess how international expansion has helped museums to increase their sustainability, the aim is to trace patterns of convergence in order to develop a global interpretation of the strategy. Methodologically, it is based on the triangulation of qualitative techniques (bibliographic and documentary analysis, interviews, etc) and quantitative techniques (virtual ethnography and social network analysis), taking into account the need to approach the subject from an interdisciplinary approach that reflects the multi-dimensional reality of museology. This research analyses whether and how satellite museums could become sustainable and provide an overview on the models’ sustainability by considering why it is necessary to reform the traditional management of museums, which its main development directions are, what sustainable museum development should look like and why museums should implement it.
Presenters
Alejandra Linares FiguerueloPhD candidate, Social Anthropology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Technical, Political, and Social Responses
KEYWORDS
Museums, Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Internationalisation, Culture, Hermitage
