Claude Ardouin
is participant at
The Global Future of Local Art Museums - The Cultural Practice of Local Memory and the Rise of Global Art
Abstract
World Heritage and Local Community Museums
The paper addresses the potentialities, in an African context, of the local institutions grouped under the widespread broad category of local community museums. The issues standing include the interactions between world heritage and local heritage, between world culture and local knowledge, local creativity and wider audiences, access to art education and cultural information, among others. Despite their common name, selected examples in various countries, starting from the 70s, rather suggest an important diversity of situations, reflecting different backgrounds, circumstances and forces behind their creation. The potential roles of those museums are to be explored in line with developmental issues, with memory, local heritage and access to world heritage, with the relation to the intangible heritage as a primary resource. Other important issues to the considered are the implications in terms of the engagement with the audiences, the professional capacities, the sustainability and the legal and administrative frameworks.
