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| Titel |
When is a museum a public museum? Considerations from the point of view of public finance |
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C. Rosenstein |
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In: The international journal of cultural policy. 16(2010)4(Nov.449-465) |
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museumbeleid, overheidsfinanciering, sociale status, musea, economie, Verenigde Staten, tijdschriftartikelen (vorm) |
Samenvatting
This article considers the scope and types of support given through the system of museum public finance in the USA as well as the attitudes to support this system reflects. This examination provides a deepened understanding of the significance of ties between museums and government that are mediated by dollars. The degree of directness through which government dollars are delivered to a museum tells us something important about the museum's public status. But several other contextual factors also influence this status; money has dimensions of significance that can only be understood by looking at characteristics of the institutions, mechanisms, and systems through which it moves. In other words, money, in a policy system, does not express strictly numerate relations. The article concludes by pointing up ways that an acknowledgement of this multivalence of money can be valuable for developing nuanced theory about the relationships between cultural economics and cultural policy. (Abstract by the author). |
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