Another new museum? Imagining the space of art in the creative city
Journal
Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration
ISSN
2001-7413
ISSN-Digital
2000-8058
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2014-09-01
Author(s)
Abstract
With the transformation of urban governance into a mode of entrepreneurialism, Museums have become prominent and privileged sites for reshaping cities as attractive places for cultural and artistic consumption. Using an ethnographic field study, the authors investigate how the logic of the creative city is at work in the planning of a new art Museum in a medium-sized Swiss city. The analysis shows how the entrepreneurial rationale is contested and re-appropriated through the use of classic and situational modes to organize this cultural institution. The ways of imagining the museum are described as the effects of these three modes of ordering - entrepreneurial, classic, and situational - as well as their hybridization. The authors conclude that by attending to the multiple layers of urban life, which unfold in and around museums, we can imagine other ‘new museums' than those of the entrepreneurial city.
Language
English
Keywords
museum
urban entrepreneurialism
representation
spectacle
creative city
modes of ordering
participation
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
School of Public Administration
Publisher place
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Volume
18
Number
3
Start page
9
End page
28
Pages
20
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
236576