Kalyva, Eve (2024) Introducing the entrepreneurial turn. In: Kalyva, Eve and Katsaridou, Iro and Bianchi, Pamela, eds. Museums and Entrepreneurship: The Effects of Capitalising on Culture in the 21st Century. Taylor & Francis, London, UK, pp. 1-11. E-ISBN 978-1-003-38140-2. (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:109102)
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Abstract
This introductory chapter identifies the current entrepreneurial turn that museums are compelled to take. In today’s context of advanced neoliberalism, deregulation, privatisation and the retraction of public funding, museums find themselves in a precarious position between the public and the private spheres. While the participation of private capital in the production and access to culture is not unique to the twenty-first century, market logic is now pervasive in the cultural domain. This has been especially true in the last decade and since the COVID-19 pandemic, which accelerated the use of digital platforms, resulted in revenue loss and the need for additional funding and changed the audiences’ needs. As culture becomes a financially lucrative market whereby heritage, knowledge and experience are turned into commodities, museums have to reconsider their practices and redefine their exploitable assets.
Entrepreneurship is multifaceted. The contents of this volume discuss case studies of entrepreneurial activities in mainly private and public art museums from different geopolitical and social contexts around the world (Europe, the United States, South America and China). They are arranged along three interrelated axes of analysis: private management of public museums, corporate sponsorship and architecture (Chapters 2–4); exhibition design, experience economy, colonial logic and the racialised spectacle (Chapters 5 and 6); and private versus community initiatives and social responsibility (Chapters 7 and 8). Through these multiple perspectives, this book hopes to lay bare the far-reaching implications of the entrepreneurial turn in the museum sector and to indicate ways in which to recover from it.
Item Type: | Book section |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | entrepreneurship, exhibition design, experience economy, museums |
Subjects: |
A General Works > AM Museums. Collectors and collecting N Visual Arts > NA Architecture N Visual Arts > ND Painting |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts |
Depositing User: | Eve Kalyva |
Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2025 10:15 UTC |
Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2025 03:48 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/109102 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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