City museums as Centres of Civic Dialogue?

Abstracts of the lectures and case studies presented at the conference

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As we all know, it is not easy to answer the question, What is a city museum? Some automatically think that it is synonymous with ‘historical museum’, and indeed, this is often the case. However, the exciting thing about city museums is that they can be very multifarious, including art collections, archaeological and historical objects and sometimes objects related to natural history. It is, therefore, necessary to be somewhat more precise.

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I would like to use here a description of Steven Thielemans, presented during a workshop attended by four city museums in Ghent in 2000: a city museum is a museum about and in the city. It is connected with both the strategy of the city and with its citizens. Of course more can be said about this, but right now I would like to leave it at that.

City museums as Centres of Civic Dialogue?, Abstracts of the lectures and case studies presented at the conference; Renée Kistemaker (red.). - Amsterdam : Amsterdams Historisch Museum, ICOM/ICMAH, IAMH[s.l.] : [s.l.] : , 2005. - 46 p. ; 30 cm + Programme of the conference, time table of the parallel workshop + list of participants

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