Review article

Cultural Studies and its Contribution to Understanding the Phenomena of Rapid Museum Growth

Klementina Batina orcid.org/0000-0002-7438-5295 ; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Historical and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Department of Ethnology, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The “museum boom” is the phenomenon of rapid growth in the number of museums over the last several decades. I will try to find the reasons for the progressive growth of the number of museums from the standpoint of the discourse of cultural studies, explain the meaning of the role of museums in contemporary society and in the context of various relations of power through the analysis of texts of the several most prominent cultural theorists (R. Williams, S. Hall, R. Johnson, T. Bennett, T. Eagleton). Through the questioning of the terms “lived”/’recorded” culture, the culture of the “selective tradition’, ‘documentary’, “ideal” and ‘social” culture, the ‘structure of feelings”, identity /”identification”, I will try to answer the question whether museums really meet the needs they create and whether we need them at all.

Keywords

cultural studies; role of museum; contemporary society

Hrčak ID:

44197

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/44197

Publication date:

9.12.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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