it is increasingly said that "the status quo is unsustainable" (Circa2009) and the commentary coming to light via budgetary deliberations [Link]. The paradigm shift of the kind that a proposal for a MUSEUMStasmania and COLLECTIONlutruwita iteration is not actually all that audacious. Arguably it is more to do with effecting a 'catch up'.
Sadly in the struggle for relevance there are commentators spruiking museums as being part of 'an industry' that has a 'commodity'. Whilst it is possible to see how such culturally disconnected mutterings might get a hearing, in the end they are so misinformed as to be quite irrelevant – albeit in the realm of contestable ideas.
Whilst it once made sense for Local Govt to "own and operate" musingplaces and as 'cost centres' it turns out that it no longer is. Moreover Local Governance can no longer be the appropriate 'custodians' of 'cultural property' as by-and-large elected representatives and 'officers' lack the wherewithal to adequately fulfil their obligations in that context.
Effecting change to transform variously governed and managed 'cultural collections' into an entity, a 21st C entity, that has the authority and the wherewithal into an appropriately governed network of 'cultural collections' is timely.
The benefits that might well flow from lutruwitaTASMANIA becoming a musingplace in itself rather that a place where there are musingplaces is ever likely to deliver 'benefits in spades'.
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