2021/01/01 by Bruno Brulon Soares · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Museums and Cultural Heritage #Photography and Visual Culture #Anthropological Studies and Insights
paper · pdf · doi:10.4000/iss.4044
openalex publication_date 2021/01/01 · openalex created_date 2022/07/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Museology was invented as a way to look at the diversity of museums through a single “scientific” lens. Behind the assumption that museology could be a science – one that was in the foundation of this international committee (ICOFOM) – there was the idea promoted by some of our founding figures that one single branch of knowledge could serve the study of the plurality of museums. A claim of universality, according to which “the embryonic nucleus of museology must have existed since a long tim...