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Bridging the Boundaries between Museums and Heritage Studies: the Importance of Interpretation

The past few decades have seen an emergent and growing interest in the phenomenon of heritage. While ICOM's definition of ‘museum’ has being long centred on institutions and their existing functions, the version adopted at ICOM’s General Conference in Vienna in 2007 has moved towards considering the social function/societal roles of museums by defining heritage as museums core “business”. While this development is certainly welcome, it raises questions as to how well-developed and established the field of museum studies is in relation to the more emergent one of heritage studies. Is the latter gaining dominance as a topic in a museum studies and museology, and if so, how, and to what degree? Do museum studies and museology prove limited or redundant when one takes into account the importance of heritage as a specific phenomenon? Do museum studies continue to address relevant topics and how might the field remain pertinent, or indeed crucial, in its analysis of the ongoing development of relations between humanity and heritage, which occurs largely within today's museums?

museology, heritage studies, scientific revolution

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