Eleventh International Conference on The Inclusive Museum

Abstract

Since 2012, the Los Rios region in Chile has its own Museum Network, which collaborates sharing experiences, resources, and ideas in order to strengthen, promote, and disseminate in an associative way, the cultural and natural heritage of the Los Rios Region. As part of “EU LAC: Museums and Communities” project–funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and innovation programme, the Museological Office at Universidad Austral de Chile is researching the network’s community-based museums in order to understand their sustainability concepts and practices in areas such as management, collections, staff, and community engagement. This paper both systematize and analyze the results gathered for five museums by an interdisciplinary team, advised by an expert committee, that designed and implemented methodologies and research tools relevant to the diversity of museums involved in the case studies, aiming to be able to make sustainability recommendation useful for community-based small and medium museums.