Culture for Development Directory

Commonwealth museums : relics of the past or tools for the future?

Irvine, Lois | 2008
  • Author(s): Irvine, Lois
  • Publisher: Commonwealth secretariat
  • Pages: 1--4
  • Keywords: museums, commonwealth
What impact can and should museums have on individuals, communities and civil society as a whole? This article argues that museums must not remain as bystanders to the main stream of humanity but must participate in the process of development of healthy and sustainable societies.

Report on ASEMUS education-outreach and public programmes project between Chester Beatty library, Dublin, Ireland (13th-24th March 2006) & Islamic arts museum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (27 November-8th December 2006)

Ismail, Noraiza | 2006
  • Author(s): Ismail, Noraiza
  • Publisher: Asia-Europe museum network]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: cultural exchanges, museums, library education, malaysia, ireland
The results of an ASEMUS exchange programme between the Chester Beatty Library in Ireland and the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM). Participants from the Library and IAMM have been exposed to museum education activities in both institution through discussions and fieldwork.

Creative industries : a symposium on culture based development strategies

Jaitly, Jaya | 2005
  • Author(s): Jaitly, Jaya
  • Publisher: Singh
  • Pages: 11--70
  • Keywords: culture, handicrafts, artistic creation, arts, entrepreneurship, design, cultural development, india
In India, creative industries are traditional crafts, but also a growing sector of modern creativity such as Bollywood. This paper looks at how the Indian government attempts to make cultural industry intrinsic to its processes of development, and how this will affect the industries.

Museums : a debate about universality

James, Barry | 2007
  • Author(s): James, Barry
  • Publisher: United nations educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: museums, international co-operation
A special issue of UNESCO's Courier on the universality of museums. Western museums are starting to go global, not only as big business, but also as formidable machines for promoting mass culture.

The \"looting question\" bibliography : web and literary resources on the archaeological politics of private collecting, commercial treasure hunting, looting, and \"professional\" archaeology

Jarvis, Hugh | 2008-
  • Author(s): Jarvis, Hugh
  • Publisher: University at Buffalo
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: bibliographies, ethics, cultural property
A bibliography of web and literary resources on the archaeological politics of private collecting, commercial treasure hunting, looting, and \"professional\" archaeology.
 

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