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Museum Education in Turkey Through the Visitor Development Approaches
Virtual Poster Ceren Karadeniz
The museum in the twenty-first century is the primary source of developments and transformations experienced in the cultural sector and a dynamic institute where sustainability associated tests are actualized. The museum diversifying its functions with traditional and contemporary approaches is a contemporary institution taken into consideration not only in the context of cultural heritage to be collected, protected, exhibited, and used for the purpose of training but also from the aspect of the strategies which allow them to recognized cross the globe and to turn into substantial resources for education to be developed and implemented. In line with the development of world museums, a considerable increase in the number of private and public museums is being experienced in Turkey. In the period during which the contemporary museum has new functions and uses many new concepts, the efforts of Turkish museums in using the museum environment for the educational purposes are in remarkable diversity. The state of being interweaving between the development of museums and the museum education in Turkey is in question. In this research realized in order to investigate the history of museum education in Turkey in context of museum education and to reveal the dilemmas related to the future of the field, the early period of museology (15-19th century), (Republican Period Early Years, The periods between 1960-2000 and Post-2000 period) have been scrutinized and the future plans of Turkish museums related to their harmonization with the contemporary functions and educational policies and practices have been discussed.
Museum Governance: The Case of Saudi Arabia
Virtual Poster Noura Shuqair, Bassam Al Bassam
Museums throughout history have proven to be one of the cornerstones of the educational process and a reflection of a country's history, culture, and society. However, some museums have become a burden on government budgets, accused of targeting certain classes of society, and sometimes becoming a means of tax evasion. Additionally, in some places the role of museums in society and the influence of museums on the political process is weak or almost non-existent. On the other hand, governance has been considered one of the main tools toward comprehensive and sustainable development. Supporting accountability and transparency, fighting corruption, enhancing public participation and inclusion, among other factors, are the main themes of the governance process. Thus, we propose that applying good governance practices to museums will result in supporting the role of museums in society through public participation and bringing back public trust to museums as an important institution in the educational, cultural, and political process. Also, adopting good governance practices by museums will give legitimacy to the museums institutions' work, as well as enhancing museums to be less dependent on government funds and self-sufficient financially. The research focuses on museums in Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia is new to the museum world. The recent government plans tend to focus on building new museums and developing the mechanism for community participation in the political process. Analytical descriptive research method, by reviewing previous studies and analyzing government's and museums' documents, is utilized in order to reach the objectives of the study.
Cais das Artes: The Museum of Paulo Mendes da Rocha in Vitória
Virtual Poster Luciana Nemer Diniz, Igor Klein da Silva Marins
The Cais das Artes is a cultural space that is being built on the shore of the bay of Vitória, in Espírito Santo, Brazil. The complex is part of a seafront art and culture circuit. The space contains a museum, a theater, and a square. Its project is authored by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, whose work is recognized internationally and has accumulated a series of awards. The architect owns a singular style, with works ruled by a taste for materiality and monumentality. His designs are examples of the contemporary application of the Brutalist aesthetics, to which we have been able to offer plastic originalities. The project was developed by Metro Architects in a collaboration with the architect. The Cais das Artes occupies a land of 21,000 m².The 30,000 m² built area also houses the auditorium and the café. The architectural party was designed in such a way to raise the museum and the theater releasing the view from the bay of Vitoria to the observer of the level of the square. The museum space was designed with total visual integration between the ground level and the first and the second floor, through panels of inclined glass that allow the internal lighting by reflection of the light on the floor and the height allows the exhibition of large works. This paper introduces research that began with technical visits carried out in 2013, and its evolution up to the present date.
Exploring the Museum's Images - Exploring my Image: Group Art Psychotherapy Program in the Museum
Virtual Poster Elisabeth Ioannides, Aphrodite Pantagoutsou
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) in collaboration with the First Psychiatric Department of the University of Athens, Eginition Hospital created a synergy and carried out two three-month art psychotherapy programs on the museum’s premises. The programs were held for a closed group of ten participants maximum, following an open call. In the shadow of the long-lasting period of economic, political, and social crisis that Greece is facing, the two institutions collaborated in order to offer participants a positive space for self-expression, creativity, critical thinking, and for reducing anxiety through art making while simultaneously engaging participants with the museum collection.
