Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy: Post-Guggenheim Developments

Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy explores how museums have become active players in the economic sector of culture, reconfiguring cultural diplomacy and becoming autonomous diplomatic players on the world stage. It offers a comparative analysis across case studies and demonstrates how museums have gone global in the era of neoliberal globalisation. The book will be a valuable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners of contemporary museology and cultural diplomacy.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 122 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The evolution of museums from publicly or privately supported cultural institutions to active participants in the cultural economy is explored in the book Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy. It makes the case that museums have developed into independent diplomatic actors on the international stage by examining how this change reconfigured cultural diplomacy. In order to show that museums have expanded globally in the age of neoliberal globalization, the book provides a comparative analysis of a variety of case studies.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which is renowned for its innovative global expansion techniques, including museum franchising and global corporatization, is the first subject of Grincheva's study. The book then examines how these techniques were implemented at museums all around the world and analyzes two post-Guggenheim developments in China and Russia: the K11 Art Mall in Hong Kong and the International Network of Foundations of the State Hermitage Museum in Russia. These instances from more repressive political systems show the development of alternative channels of museum diplomacy that no longer rely on government commissions to advance immediate geo-political objectives.

Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy is a useful resource for students, academics, and practitioners of modern museology and cultural diplomacy. The book will be of particular interest to museum and heritage professionals and policymakers engaged in international exchanges or official cultural diplomacy programs because it documents recent developments in museum diplomacy.

Weight: 236g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367787943