The University of Valencia participates in a transnational research project aimed at carrying out a comparative analysis of contemporary community museology.
A group of academics / cos, museum professionals and political actors have created the website eulacmuseums.net with the aim of showing the world of small regional museums and their communities in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
EU-LAC-MUSEUMS was conceived under the auspices of ICOM (International Council of Museums) in 2014. It has received funding of 2,422,406 euros from Horizon2020 - the largest program in the European Union for research and innovation - which will run between 2016 and 2020. The objective of this research is to provide a better understanding of the cultural, scientific and social dimension of the relationship between the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), thus supporting the EU-CELAC cooperation process outlined by the EU-CELAC Action Plan in defining a common vision for the coming years.
EU-LAC-MUSEUMS intends to carry out a comparative analysis of small and medium-sized rural museums, as well as their communities in the EU and LAC, developing a historical and theoretical knowledge about them. The basis of this project is related to the fact that community museums, particularly those in Latin American and Caribbean countries, allow under-represented communities to have their place in history, as well as contribute to environmental sustainability and community empowerment. .
[...] community museums, particularly those in Latin American and Caribbean countries, allow under-represented communities to have their place in history [...]
Over the next 4 years the researchers will study how these institutions can inform museum practice, particularly in remote and island locations. Museums involved include the Ceumannan-Skye Ecomuseum, in Scotland, and the Rey Curré Community Museum, in Costa Rica, run by the original Boruca people. Both are open-air museums, encouraging visitors to explore the natural landscape and traditional structures. Here, the young people, together with the community elders, will carry out an oral history collection project, becoming curators of a virtual exhibition on the theme of social change.
Our action plan focuses on the following four areas of the EU-CELAC survey:
- Technology and Innovation for Bi-regional Integration.
- Museums for Inclusion and Social Cohesion
- Promotion of Sustainable Community Museums
- Exposing Migration and Gender
