Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Museums offer three very different things: public entertainment, public education and scholarly research. In all three areas museums have, over the past generation, transformed the ways they understand, use and present religion. This transformation in museums worldwide has forged new correspondences with other kinds of visitor attraction, like places of worship, libraries, pilgrimage centres, theme parks or zoos. The barriers that once separated museums from other institutions that welcome visitors have broken down, perhaps especially in the field of religion. In this short note I shall look briefly at some of the approaches museums have come to share with other attractions that present religion to visitors, and at some of the motives they share.
Source: ICOFOM Study Series
DOI: 10.4000/iss.1753
Author: Crispin Paine
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2982129161