MUSEUMS AND GLOBAL PUBLIC SPHERES

Sites of Interest

The following list of web-based resources includes links to institutions discussed in presentations at the Museums and Global Public Spheres conference as well as a range of relevant policy documents. Important published resources on museums, exhibitions, heritage, and related issues are also being compiled in a Reference List. Both lists will be updated every few months as additional links and citations are received from those associated with the project.

Abomey Museum (Benin)
American Association of Museums (United States)
American Museum of Natural History (New York, United States)
Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
Apartheid Museum (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Asia Society (New York, United States)
Beamish North of England Open Air Museum (Beamish, United Kingdom)
Disney World's EPCOT Center (Orlando, United States)
Disney World's Animal Kingdom (Orlando, United States)
District Six Museum (Cape Town, South Africa)
Guggenheim Las Vegas at the Venetian (Las Vegas, United States)
Jewish Museum (San Francisco, United States)
International Council of Museums (ICOM)
Iziko Museums (Cape Town, South Africa)
Kruger National Park (South Africa)
Life Interactive World (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
Louvre Museum (Paris, France)
Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum (Lwandle, South Africa)
Museo de Arte de Lima (Lima, Peru)
Museo del Barro (Asunción, Paraguay)
Museo Etnográfico (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Museum of Chinese in the Americas (New York, United States)
National Museum of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
National Museum of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, United States)
Post Graduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies (Cape Town, South Africa)
Reyum Gallery (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC, United States)
Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand (Wellington, New Zealand)
Union of Community Museums of Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC, United States)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, United States)
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, United States)

Policy Documents

Definitions of "Museum"
France: 2002 Museum Law
ICOM Code of Ethics
UNESCO: Intangible Heritage
UNESCO: Tangible Heritage

MGPS Home Page
Conference Program
Atlanta Workshop
Reference List
Table of Contents for Museum Frictions book

Author's Exchange is an area where contributors to Museum Frictions can post revised versions of their papers for comment by other contributors (access by password only).