Abstract
This exploratory research focuses on three museums that failed to sustain even for a decade, which were established during 2003-2005, under a rural tourism project supported by UNDP, Nepal. The study examines local initiatives taken by the communities in order to establish the museums, along with the facilitation supports extended by the Project and other partnership efforts. Furthermore, the study investigates the main causes of local de/motivations, discontinuation, and inactiveness of the key stakeholders of the museums in the concerned locality (2 districts: Chitwan and Rupandehi/ Lumbini area). The study analyzes all cases from ‘inclusiveness’ perspective as well, which is relatively a new phenomenon in Nepal. Equally, local understanding and perceptions are explored in line with the sustainable development goals (SDGs), new governance structure (federal structure introduced in Nepal with the New Constitution- 2015), and other challenges that Nepal faced in the last decade, including the devastating earthquake (2015), the global pandemic ‘COVID-19’ (2020-2022), and other challenges. Finally, this ‘qualitative study’ makes an effort to suggest the governmental, non-governmental, private organizations, as well as local stakeholders in order to re-think, re-shape and re-vitalize the community-based cultural museum development efforts.
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Presentation Type
Theme
2024 Special Focus—Intersectionality: Museums, Inclusion, and SDGs
KEYWORDS
Community-based Inclusive Museum Nepal Rural Tourism Sustainability
