处在十字路口的博物馆学

Museology at the Crossroads

博物馆界面临着重大变革。经济危机确实让大批博物馆重新思考博物馆与其环境的关系。(规模并不大的)博物馆学界似乎正面对一个十字路口。如果我们能相信各种对博物馆未来的研究和报告,博物馆似乎确实正融入社会环境。但其他两种规划也可被考虑:一个是在地缘政治层面;一个是在认识论层面。从地缘政治层面,博物馆的未来似乎属于盎格鲁撒克逊世界;而在认识论层面,我们可能可以拷问博物馆学的本质。从60年代末开始,相当多博物馆理论家相信,博物馆学构思之道并不在于将博物馆运作的诀窍付诸实践。"人对待现实的特定路径"是否为博物馆研究展现了一个清晰的日程?是否存在另一种看待博物馆学的可能性?

The field of museums has been undergoing major changes.The economic crisis has indeed led a large number of museums to rethink the relationship between museums and their environment.The museum academia(which is not in a big scale)seems to be facing a crossroads.If we can trust all kinds of research and reports on the future of museums,museums seem to be really integrating into the social environment.But two other plans can also be considered:one is at the geopolitical level and the other the epistemological level.At the geopolitical level,the future of museums seems to belong to the Anglo-Saxon world;but at the epistemological level,we may be able to explore the essence of museology.Since the late 1960 s,many museum theorists believe that the way to conceive museology is not to put the know-how of museum operation into practice.Has"The specific path of men facing the reality"show a clear agenda for museum research?Is there another possibility of looking at museology?