European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting. Barcelona 2018, 5th of September-8th of September. Session: 776 Title: Heritage management in the 21st Century: where is it heading? State Agencies, NGOs, Charities or independent...
moreEuropean Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting.
Barcelona 2018, 5th of September-8th of September.
Session: 776
Title:
Heritage management in the 21st Century: where is it heading? State Agencies, NGOs, Charities or independent organisations?
Keywords:
heritage management, conservation, visitor's experience
What are the challenges of heritage management in the XXI century? What are the good tools we should pick up and which one we should drop when it comes to heritage management?
How do we assess whether state-managed or private-managed heritage sites and museums are successful? What are the criteria? Is there a way to predict where we are heading when it comes to preserve our heritage not for our generation, but for those to come?
These are the questions I would like to discuss and hopefully find an answer to by case-studies and experiences of those working in the heritage sector across the country and abroad.
ABSTRACT:
Cultural sites and museums have been run primarily on public funding, yet some countries – although just a handful – have taken an alternative approach by establishing national independent organisations. They are set up as charities to receive special benefits and they strive to fund-raise enough to enable day-to-day operations as well as long-term conservation.
All these various agencies focus on operation management, service industry settings and branding heritage in order to generate revenues for conservation and enhance the quality of the visitor experience. What are the results achieved so far? Are current models suitable or are there alternative paths to be explored?
The purpose of this session is to gather experts of various backgrounds to share their on-going research on site and museum management, frameworks already in use by managers and directors of these institutions to enable relevant conservation and visitor's experience. Papers should explore issues encountered during the project development, creation and delivery of successful management plans – that deliver both vital conservation and exceptional visitor's experience – and the impact of institutions such as Heritage Lottery Fund. The session also aims at exploring the differences between heritage sites run by state agencies, NGOs, charities and independent organisations in the following areas: policies, decision-making, development of management plans, fund-raising to enable conservation and visitor's experience planning, define balance between conservation and visitor's experience delivery. Papers exploring financial issues and how to successfully address them are welcome.
Organisers
Main organiser:
Edoardo Bedin (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Ms. Anna Miaczewska (Poland) 2
Affiliations:
1. Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu- Zagreb, Croatia
2. Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej- Lublin, Poland
Theme:
Museums and the challenges of archaeological outreach in the 21st century
Session format:
Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each