Livre - Report from two symposia at the Department of Museology, Umeå University

CONTENTS, p. 5 ÅGREN Per-Uno, Introduction, p. 7 WHAT IS MUSEOLOGY? ŠOLA Tomislav, What is Museology?, p. 10 SOFKA Vinoš, Ten Years of International Search for the Foundations of Museology, p. 20 DESVALLÉES André, Museology and cultural identity, p. 50 MENSCH Peter van, Museology and its use for museums, p.78 KAVANAGH Gaynor, Current research in museum studies in Britain and future research needs, p.92 ÅGREN Per-Uno, Museology – A new branch of humanities in Sweden?, p.104 HUDSON Kenneth, Museums inside and outside the Establishment – The great British divide, p.114 NICHOLSON Freda, Museums in the 21st Century, p.124 LOCAL AND GLOBAL – TWO ASPECTS OF MUSEUM COMMUNICATION HOGGART Richard, Contemporary cultural change in Britain and Europe, p.130 LUNDBERG Bengt, The commercial democracy, p.144 LOHR Rita, Between “Heimatstube” and Museum-show – Aspects of museum work in the Federal Republic of Germany, p.152 HORNE Donald, Reading museums, p.168 VARINE Hugues de, Cultural action – A concept and its ambiguities, p.176 ARNSTBERG Karl-Olav, The building as a national symbol, p.180 AMBJÖRNSSON Ronny, The conscientious worker, p.188 NIELSEN Arno Victor, On the historical dialectics of local and global, p.196