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MÚZEUMELMÉLET - Basics Beatrix: Az emlékezés helye vagy eltörölt hely? Múzeum-értelmezés a 21. században. Válság vagy átalakulás - múzeum és kiállítás az ezredfordulón

Gardner, J. B., and E. Merritt. The AAM Guide to Collections Planning. Washington, D. C.: American Association of Museums, 2004. Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge. London: Routledge, 1992. Karp, Ivan, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine, eds. Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington. D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Karp, Ivan, and Steven D. Lavine, eds. Exhibiting Cultures: the Politics and poetics of Display. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. Kotler, Neil, and Philip Kotier. Museum Strategy and Marketing: Designing Missions, Building Audiences, Generating Revenue and Resources. New York: Jossey-Bass /John Wiley. Inc., 1998. Lord, Barry, and Gail Lord. The Management of Museum Exhibitions. Walnut Creek, Cal.: AltaMira Press, 2002. Pearce, Susan M. Museums, Objects and Collections: A Cultural Study. Leicester, U. K.: Leicester University Press, 1992. Spalding, Julian. The Poetic Museum: Reviving Historic Collections. Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2002. Suchy, Sherene. Leading with Passion: Change Management in the 21st Century Museum. Walnut Creek, Cal.: AltaMira Press, 2004. The Place of Memory or a Place Destructed? Museum Interpretations in the 21st Century Crisis or change - museums and exhibitions at the turn of the millennium For a long time museums used to be places without changes and for this reason change is considered as something threatening stability. In Hungary in the mid ninties a definite change has started with the millennary celebrations, with organizing new permanent exhibitions in museums. This was the time when museum experts have started to deal with self-defining and searching for the history of museums. In the 16-17th centuries museums were theatrum memoriae, theatrum mundi - that is places for the visual attraction and education. The collections were put in order and as a result of this process different types of museums were born. They could be visited, investigated, copied - and the task of a museum was education and entertainment. It was generally considered that the objects of the collections were in themselves enough fot this purpose. In the second half of the 19th century with the specialization of museums self-definition had started. The latest definition is that „the general task of museums is to justify long-term national memory". In this case museums are today places for the self-representation of a community. And the community should feel that museums are places representing their own history. Today it is not enough to exhibit objects - museums have to entertain as well. This raises the question of interpretation and/or attraction The two together can be the real basis of museums today. The task of self definiton is waiting for the museum experts. Hundreds of publications help this - a list of the most interesting can be found at the end of the writing together with „official" definitions of different organizations concerning the museums. Beatrix Basics 416